On Friday 25 June 2004 04:27 pm, Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:45:08AM -0400, Ace Suares said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed clamav on Debian Woody with Qmail-Scanner. I used the debian
> > package from deb http://people.debian.org/~sgran/debian
> >
> > So far so good, but since qmail-scanner runs as user qscand and clamd
> > runs as clamd, clam can not write files in the working dir (something
> > like /var/ spool/qmailscan.)
> >
> > I found a link that suggested changing the 'user' in clamav.conf to
> > qscand.
>
> Take a look at /usr/share/doc/clamav-base/README.Debian. The suggested
> fix for this sort of thing is to leave clamav running as clamav, but to
> add it to the group qscand, and make sure AllowSupplementaryGroups is
> set in clamav.conf.
I tried and tried and tried and wasn't actually able to get it to work like
that. I simply run my clamd as the qscand user (I do this on production
systems as well) and it works dandy.
-Jeremy
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