possible bug in 4.84.3-1 located in clamav-wrapper

Alexandru Ionica alexandru.ionica at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 15:19:04 GMT 2011


Ok,
I don't know the innerworkings of Mailscanner but for me it looks like
/var/spool/MailScanner/
incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp/tmp.vWQ4hixN67 is a file and clamav expects it
to be a folder.


On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Jeremy McSpadden <jeremy at fluxlabs.net>wrote:

> Looks more like a permissions issue than a bug
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> On Nov 9, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Alexandru Ionica wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> MailScanner 4.84.3-1 fresh install running on Centos-6 x86_64 .
> Running MailScanner --debug-sa i noticed the following:
> 12:54:12 LibClamAV Error: cli_scanhtml: Can't create temporary directory
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp/tmp.vWQ4hixN67/clamav-497c230ffa4f39a4779ea7618dd8efa4
>
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp/tmp.vWQ4hixN67 is a file
> and not a directory so this is why it was caused.
>
> I looked at /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper and changed
> TempDir=$(mktemp) || { echo "$0: Cannot make name for temporary dir" >&2;
> exit 1; }
> to
> TempDir=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir=/var/spool/MailScanner/clamav) || { echo "$0:
> Cannot make name for temporary dir" >&2; exit 1; }
>
> I presume the --tmpdir wouldn't have been needed but i wanted to also move
> it do a different folder.
> Anyway the cause seems to be the lack of the -d flag to mktemp so mktemp
> creates a file instead of a folder.
>
> After doing the above change i don't see any more errors or warnings from
> clamav.
>
> Regards.
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