Clamd permission error

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Fri Nov 18 16:21:46 GMT 2011


I'm pretty certain I looked through there. The settings are spread out 
all across the config file, so I might have missed one (or four). I just 
don't understand why I'm seeing this now (just one email) without having 
changed anything.

Thanks for all the help from everyone.

steve

On 11/18/2011 11:07 AM, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> yes you need to look carefully at the mailscanner.conf settings for 
> permssions etc. Theres good documentation in the file about running 
> clamdd and the things you need to setup
> -- 
> Martin Hepworth
> Oxford, UK
>
>
> On 18 November 2011 14:53, Milenko Letic <mikoletic at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mikoletic at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     this is mod in my MailScanner.conf :
>     Incoming Work Permissions = 0644
>
>     maybe , maybe not help, but wish you luck
>
>     On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Steve Campbell
>     <campbell at cnpapers.com <mailto:campbell at cnpapers.com>> wrote:
>
>         I'm getting the following error in my logs:
>
>         Clamd::ERROR:: lstat() failed: Permission denied.
>         ERRORClamd::ERROR:: lstat() failed: Permission denied......
>
>         Looking back, I found a thread suggesting I should switch to
>         the internal tnef expander, which I am trying now, and to
>         ensure the "incoming" directory is accessible by the clam user
>         (clamav). I've followed the suggestions in the
>         MailScanner.conf file for the situation I am running under.
>         The temp folders under the incoming directory, along with the
>         incoming folder itself, where the winmail.dat is expanded IS
>         owned by clamav.
>
>         So I'm wondering if the 0640 mod on the folders is the proper
>         mod. Should there be any sticky bits or anything set?
>
>         Just curious, since this seems to be the first time I've run
>         into this and I've been using MS for years.
>
>         steve campbell
>
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