clamd - ./lstat() failed

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 19:08:07 GMT 2008


2008/11/15 Marc Lucke <marc at marcsnet.com>:
> Sorry - should have said:  I did change the group to clamav and I did change
> the permissions to 0640 as per the instructions.
>
> I saw that an easy way out is to have clamav run as root, so I did that
> rather.
>
> I'm still interested in anyone's ideas as I'd like to be able to
> successfully run clamd as user clamav, but I don't care so much anymore.
>
>
> Cheers
> Marc
>
>
> Marc Lucke wrote:
>>
>> Clamd::ERROR:: UNKNOWN CLAMD RETURN ./lstat() failed. ERROR ::
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/30627
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone.  Wondering if anyone can tell me what this means and how I
>> can fix it.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Marc
>>
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Check the clamd.conf settings that you the "user" set correctly and
the "AllowSupplementaryGroups" set to yes.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


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