Can't see the error of my ways - Clamd

[Julian Field]

Steve Campbell wrote:
> Really frustated, as I should be able to see this.
>
> I have installed the latest MS and the Clamd rpms on a machine, and 
> then, after seeing that it is running fine, onto two other machines. 
> The first is still running fine. The other two are reporting the error 
> in my maillog:
>
> ::ERROR:: UNKNOWN CLAMD RETURN ./lstat() failed. ERROR :: 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/10897
>
> Now, I have tried to figure out where the ownership and permissions 
> are going haywire, but haven't been able to. I am running sendmail.
>
> I can stop MS, change the ownership of the incoming directory to 
> clamav.root on the bad machine as it is on the nicely-running machine. 
> When I start MS and it creates the first temp directory under 
> incoming, it changes the ownership back to root.clamav for the 
> directory incoming and the temp directories. I have tried comparing 
> the MS.conf files and the clamd.conf files, but see no difference.
>
> Does anyone have a clue?
Have you checked all the ownership and permissions settings in 
MailScanner.conf? I would suspect that's where your problem is, 
MailScanner will be overwriting your manually set permissions.

Jules

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