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I apologize for my shrill tone here... It's just under 100 degrees F. in my living room, |
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I'm hours behind on the work I'm supposed to be doing today, and it seems unfair that |
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qmail-scanner lost its mind without my doing any updates. |
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Anyway, I hesitate to even say this, lest I curse myself, but I think I managed to stumble |
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across the correct sequence of magic incantations to get clamd and/or qmail-scanner to |
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quit puking... At least I haven't seen any errors in the logs in the last few minutes... |
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just the usual torrent of spam scan messages. |
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Still, I would love to understand this all better... if anyone has any sage |
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qmail/spamassassin/clamav/vpopmail survival advice they'd like to share, I'd love to hear it! |
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b |
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Ben Munat wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> |
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> Earlier today, I discovered that clamd was complaining about permissions |
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> in my logs (clamdscan: corrupt or unknown clamd scanner error or |
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> memory/resource/perms problem). I have spent hours and hours trying to |
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> get this horrid piece of software to not stomp on my email (why in the |
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> world someone would think that it's a good idea for a misconfigured |
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> virus scanner to not allow any email through is beyond me). |
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> I tried the instructions posted here: |
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> |
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> http://qmail.jms1.net/clamav-qms.shtml |
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> |
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> and here: |
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> |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_QMAIL_RELAY-CTRL_VPOPMAIL |
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> Nothing worked... I went from the above error to the ever annoying |
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> "cannot open /var/spool/qscan/qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt - did you |
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> initialise the system by running "qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z"? - |
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> Permission denied" Annoying because I have run "qmail-scanner-queue.pl |
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> -z" several times and it has no effect. |
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> |
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> I think I used to just run clamd as root to avoid all this, but that |
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> didn't appear to help. Currently, I've gone over and over all the files |
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> involved and everything's owned by qscand and that's what clamd and |
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> freshclam are set to run as. |
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> |
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> Based on the comments in that first link above about version 2.* of |
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> qmail-scanner, I went ahead and unmasked that and emerged it. But that |
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> seems to have made things even worse, since now the error messages are |
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> all about missing files in /var/spool/qscan... which didn't even exist! |
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> I've been creating the files in that dir as they show up in error |
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> messages in the logs, but now it's looking for /quarantine-events.db |
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> which I think is supposed to be a BDB file... and I have no idea how to |
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> create that. |
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> |
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> If anyone have any experience getting the evil qmail-scanner beast under |
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> control, I really really appreciate any guidance. I've had more trouble |
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> with this one package than anything else on gentoo. It's positively evil. |
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> In the meantime, I'm flying totally unscanned... fire-hose of spam, |
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> phishing email, viruses, etc. |
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> thanks, |
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> |
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> Ben |
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