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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Sunday, July 18, 2004 9:21:16 am | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 1:23:47 am | by LucaGibelli | Revert |
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Yeah, I know this isn't the prettiest, but I don't have time to track down *why* its dying just yet -- DanielLawson
A similar script is available at http://mikecathey.com/code/clamdwatch/ and in the contrib/clamdwatch directory -- NERv
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+!! clamdscan can't read files (when run from amavis or some other scanner)
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+ Jun 9 10:21:02 firewall amavis[[17934]: (17934-02) Clam Antivirus-clamd FAILED -
+ unknown status: /var/lib/amavis/amavis-msg-id/parts: Can't access the file ERROR
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+clamav-daemon runs as the 'clamav' user (on Debian/Woody anyway), and when amavis unpacks its email for scanning as the 'amavis' user. Add clamav to the amavis group, and restart the clamav daemon.
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+Another way around this is to run clamav and amavis as the same user. Apparently this change needs to be made for Conectiva Linux.
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