ClamAv 0.96 is out

[Mark Sapiro]

On 4/2/2010 11:01 PM, Iulian L Dragomir wrote:
> on my test system i have:
> 
> /var/spool/Mailscanner contains 2 folders
> 
> name                        perms            owner  group
> =============================
> incoming                   drwxr-xr-x     root     clamav


chmod g+w incoming


> quarantine                drwxr-xr-x     root     root
> 
> /var/spool/Mailscanner/incoming contains :
> 
> name                                perms            owner  group
> =============================
> 22715                               drwxrwx---     root     clamav
> 22779                               drwxrwx---     root     clamav
> 22837                               drwxrwx---     root     clamav
> 22894                               drwxrwx---     root     clamav
> 22951                               drwxrwx---     root     clamav
> Locks                                drwxr-x---      root     root
> SpamAssassin-Temp        drwx-------     root     root
> Processing.db                   -rw-------        root     root
> SpamAssassin.cache.db   -rw-------        root     root
> 
> as such it looks that the clamav group have the necessary rights to
> access the mailscanner incoming folders (the 22xxx folders )


Those 22xxx folders are named for the PIDs of the process that creates
them. Each new MailScanner --lint is a new PID which tries to create a
new directory, but it can't because the group doesn't have write
permission on the directory.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan