possible bug in 4.84.3-1 located in clamav-wrapper - Found word(s) list error in the Text body

[Glenn Steen]

On 10 November 2011 10:24, Alexandru Ionica <alexandru.ionica at gmail.com> wrote:
> Still i have the feeling we are talking about different things.
>
> Clamav , postfix and Mailscanner all run as postfix user.
>
> Now which part am i not making clear when i say that according to initial
> log entry , clamav was trying to create a folder in a file instead of
> creating a folder in a folder ???  Or at least this is what i understand and
> you are not pointing that i'm understanding it wrong but you keep saying
> that it's a permission problem. I still don't understand how running clamav
> as a different user will make it try to create a folder in a file .
> I will also draw it below, just in case it's still not clear what i am
> reporting here (let's hope the formatting isn't lost)
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp/tmp.vWQ4hixN67/clamav-497c230ffa4f39a4779ea7618dd8efa4
> ^       ^          ^                 ^
> ^                                      ^                   ^
> |     folder       |              folder
> |                                 file !!!!!!               |
> folder         folder
> folder                                                    attempt to create
> this folder
>
> So i am running Postfix, MailScanner and Clamscan as user and group postfix.
>
> # grep -i postfix MailScanner.conf | grep -v ^#
> Run As User = postfix
> Run As Group = postfix
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold
> Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/incoming
> MTA = postfix
> Incoming Work User = postfix
> Incoming Work Group = postfix
> #
>
You should look at running clamd, not clamscan, and mend MailScanner
permissions to fit that (there is info in the wiki on how to do that).
I suspect noone is running pure clamscan anymore, from an
efficiency/performance standpoint... So a bug may well have creapt in
there:)

Cheers
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