I just wanted to thank everyone for the clarification.  I had a feeling
that it was still functioning, seeing that perlscanner and clamdscan had
quarantined 92 viruses since Thursday.  I guess I just didn't know how to
prove that.

-Will



>
>>>>This is not the case anymore.  The Howto has been changed and now uses
>>>>the real clamdscan.
>>>>
>>>>-Jim
>>>
>>>This is still the case on freebsd,  it fixed my problem after reading
>>>this message,  rename clamdscan to clamdscan.org ln -s
>>>/usr/local/bin/clamscan /usr/local/bin/clamdscan
>>>All of a sudden my emails are being scanned and it caught the
>>>test_installation.sh emails.
>>
>>But you're not fixing the real problem, which is most likely
>>a) a communication problem between the client (clamdscan) and the server
>>(clamd), eg a wrong socket path, or
>>b) a permissions problem, where clamd can't read the files it's supposed
>>to scan. Clamd needs read privileges (qmr.org states the user has to be
>>"qscand")
>>
>>I can't tell which one it is without the actual error message.
>>Additionally, I can't find from a quick glance thru qmr.org how they set
>>up clamav's client/server communication, and if qmailscanner runs
>> chrooted
>>(and where).
>>
>>Thomas
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>
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:49 2004 -> +++ Started at Mon Dec 20 11:02:49 2004
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:49 2004 -> clamd daemon 0.80 (OS: freebsd4.5, ARCH: i386,
> CPU: i386)
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:49 2004 -> Log file size limited to 1048576 bytes.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:49 2004 -> Running as user qscand (UID 1020, GID 1020)
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:49 2004 -> Reading databases from /usr/local/share/clamav
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Protecting against 28526 viruses.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Unix socket file /var/log/clamav/clamd
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Setting connection queue length to 15
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Archive: Archived file size limit set to
> 10485760 bytes.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Archive: Recursion level limit set to 5.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Archive: Files limit set to 1000.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Archive: Compression ratio limit set to 250.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Archive: Limited memory usage.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Archive support enabled.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Archive: RAR support disabled.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Portable Executable support enabled.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Mail files support enabled.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> OLE2 support enabled.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> HTML support enabled.
> Mon Dec 20 11:02:51 2004 -> Self checking every 600 seconds.
>
> [ bubba: ] [Mon Dec 20 2004 11:03]
> (/downloads/qmailrocks/qmail-scanner-1.24/contrib ) -#
> test_installation.sh
> -doit
> QMAILQUEUE was not set, defaulting to
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
> for this test...
>
> Sending standard test message - no viruses...
> done!
>
> Sending eicar test virus - should be caught by perlscanner module...
> qmail-inject: fatal: qq temporary problem (#4.3.0)
> Bad error. qmail-inject died
>
> Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:03:42 PST:15086: ------ Process 15086 finished. Total
> of 1.986759 secs
> Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:03:43 PST:15104: +++ starting debugging for process
> 15104 by uid=0
> Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:03:43 PST:15104: w_c: elapsed time from start 0.088004
> secs
> Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:03:43 PST:15104: return-path='',
> recips='[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:03:43 PST:15104: from='Qmail-Scanner Test
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>', subj='Qmail-Scanner viral test (2/4): checking
> perlscanner...', via local process 15104
> Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:03:43 PST:15104: error_condition:
> X-Antivirus-DLLD.ORG-1.24-st-qms: clamdscan: corrupt or unknown clamd
> scanner error or memory/resource/perms problem - exit status 512/2
> Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:03:43 PST:15104: ------ Process 15104 finished. Total
> of 0.287283 sec
>
> 1103569423:15104:------ START MSG F 11:03:43 ------
> 1103569423:15104:CONNECT-PIPE:15104
> 1103569423:15104:ENV-HEADER:'dlld.org','dlld.com','fantasizeirc.org','fantasizeirc.com','fantasizeirc.net'::[EMAIL
>  PROTECTED]
> 1103569423:15104:HEADER:Qmail-Scanner Test
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Qmail-Scanner Test
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Qmail-Scanner viral test (2/4): checking
> perlscanner...
> 1103569423:15104:TYPE:MIXED
> 1103569423:15104:ERROR:X-Antivirus-DLLD.ORG-1.24-st-qms:clamdscan: corrupt
> or unknown clamd scanner error or memory/resource/perms problem - exit
> status 512/2
>
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