MailScanner 4.78.17 doesn't detect viruses, have checked tmp permissions and no symlink, reinstalled clamav (worked in 4.77.10)

[Sunny Forro]

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Subject: Re: MailScanner 4.78.17 doesn't detect viruses, have checked
tmp permissions and no symlink, reinstalled clamav (worked in 4.77.10)

Check your virus.scanners.conf file to ensure it is pointing at the 
correct place for clamav.
If "which clamscan" reports /usr/local/bin/clamscan then the clamav line

in virus.scanners.conf should end in "/usr/local" and if it reports 
/usr/bin/clamscan then the line should end in "/usr".

That would be the first place to look. Then "MailScanner --lint" should 
detect the EICAR test pattern successfully. Once "MailScanner --lint" 
works, you're there.

Jules.


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Jules, thanks for the reply!
I checked "which clamscan" and yes it does point to
/usr/local/bin/clamscan. The clamav line in virus.scanners.conf does end
in /usr/local. Still no lint under 4.78.17, but works fine under
pervious versions on the same box. Using clamav-wrapper to do a scan of
/tmp gives me sensible output however.

Sunny



On 12/01/2010 15:45, Sunny Forro wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've just upgraded to 4.78.17 and now mailscanner doesn't report 
> viruses detected by clamav in production or lint. I've scanned the 
> /tmp directory with clamav-wrapper and get sensible clam output. /tmp 
> is not symlinked. I've reinstalled clamav, and manually reinstalled 
> all the per-tars from the install directory. I've even tried 
> downgrading MIME-tools to 5.420 (as found on another post), but to no 
> effect (and since reinstalled from perl-tar to 5.427). I've removed 
> and reinstalled Perl5.8.9, also to no effect. I'm running MS4.78.17, 
> SA3.2.5, Clam0.95.3, sendmail 8.14.3 on FreeBSD7.0p9, w/ mailwatch 
> 1.0.4, apache13, mysql5077, php5, virtualized through VMWare VSphere 
> 4.0. I've switched back to 4.77.10 as this properly identifies virii. 
> I'm out of ideas - Any suggestions? Is there something else I need to 
> check, or something else I missed?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sunny Forro
>
> P.S. Thanks a million to Julian Field for a fantastic solution to the 
> deluge of spam we had grown accustomed to.
>

Jules

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