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Hello all, |
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Earlier today, I discovered that clamd was complaining about permissions in my logs |
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(clamdscan: corrupt or unknown clamd scanner error or memory/resource/perms problem). I |
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have spent hours and hours trying to get this horrid piece of software to not stomp on my |
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email (why in the 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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http://qmail.jms1.net/clamav-qms.shtml |
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and here: |
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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 "cannot open |
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/var/spool/qscan/qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt - did you initialise the system by |
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running "qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z"? - Permission denied" Annoying because I have run |
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"qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z" several times and it has no effect. |
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I think I used to just run clamd as root to avoid all this, but that didn't appear to |
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help. Currently, I've gone over and over all the files involved and everything's owned by |
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qscand and that's what clamd and freshclam are set to run as. |
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Based on the comments in that first link above about version 2.* of qmail-scanner, I went |
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ahead and unmasked that and emerged it. But that seems to have made things even worse, |
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since now the error messages are all about missing files in /var/spool/qscan... which |
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didn't even exist! 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 which I think is |
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supposed to be a BDB file... and I have no idea how to create that. |
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If anyone have any experience getting the evil qmail-scanner beast under control, I really |
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really appreciate any guidance. I've had more trouble with this one package than anything |
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else on gentoo. It's positively evil. |
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In the meantime, I'm flying totally unscanned... fire-hose of spam, phishing email, |
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viruses, etc. |
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thanks, |
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Ben |
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