MailScanner --lint error

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jul 1 09:18:33 IST 2009


You probably haven't edited /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf to tell 
it where you put your copy of f-prot.

Jules.

On 30/06/2009 20:03, Benedict simon wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I had a Centos 5.3 server and recently upgraded my MailScanner to 4.77
> and the latest clamAV+SA jules package
> everything works fine but
>
> I also installed f-prot 6 newly since i did not have it before
>
> Now when I run MailScanner --lint i see the following
>
> ------------------------
>
>
> Read 854 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
> Read 8256 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
> Checking version numbers...
> Version number in MailScanner.conf (4.77.10) is correct.
>
> Your envelope_sender_header in spam.assassin.prefs.conf is correct.
>
> Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
> Using SpamAssassin results cache
> Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
> Connected to Processing Attempts Database
> Created Processing Attempts Database successfully
> There are 0 messages in the Processing Attempts Database
> Using locktype = posix
> MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = f-prot clamav"
> Found these virus scanners installed: clamavmodule, f-prot-6
> ===========================================================================
> Filename Checks: Windows/DOS Executable (1 eicar.com)
> Other Checks: Found 1 problems
> Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> xargs: /usr/local/f-prot/f-prot: Permission denied
> ./1/eicar.com: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND
>
> -------------------------
>
> jus wondering what the permissions could be
>
> tried to change it to 1001:users but problem persists
>
> apprecite your help
>
>
> reggards
>
> simon
>
>
>
>    

Jules

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