Clamd error in -Lint run out of ideas .... Please help

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Mar 21 15:04:40 GMT 2009



On 21/3/09 14:16, Gregory Machin wrote:
> Hi
> I'm getting the following error when I run MailScanner -Lint
>
>
> Found these virus scanners installed: clamavmodule, clamd
> ===========================================================================
> Filename Checks: Windows/DOS Executable (1 eicar.com)
> Other Checks: Found 1 problems
> Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> Clamd::ERROR:: UNKNOWN CLAMD RETURN ./lstat() failed. ERROR :: /mnt/ramdisk/MailScanner/incoming/7041
>    
For starters why are you using /mnt/ramdisk? You can just leave it at 
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming and mount that directory with tmpfs, not 
a fixed ramdisk or anything nasty like that.
I suspect that's at least part of the source of your trouble.
> Virus Scanning: Clamd found 1 infections
> Virus Scanning: Found 1 viruses
> ===========================================================================
>
>
> Google has not turned up anything that work . please could someone advise me as how to resolve.
>
>
> Using :
> install-Clam-0.94.2-SA-3.2.5
> MailScanner-4.74.16-1.rpm.tar.gz
> on
> Fedora core 10 x86_64
>
>
>
>
> Regards
> Gregory Machin
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>    

Jules

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