Thank you for your help Adam.
I have changed the permissions and it worked.

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 23:07:50 -0400
Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >If I try to execute 'su qmaild -c "/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.
> >pl -g"', I get an error:
> >perlscanner: generate new DB file from /var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine-
> >attachments.txt
> >X-Qmail-Scanner-1.16:[] cannot open for write /var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine-
> 
> >attachments.db.tmp - Permission denied
> >
> >If I change the owner of the directory to "qmailq" the command above
> >works.
> >
> >My question is: Are there functionality or security problems if the 
> >/var/spool/qmailscan/ is owned by "qmail"?
> 
> Do the following:
> 
> 1) Move the config files to a different folder
>   - Make sure to edit the script to check the new location
> 2) Run qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g as root to generate the files
> 3) Make sure qmail-scanner-queue.pl can read the config files by either:
>   - Making them world-readable (not ideal, but easy)
>   - Making them group owned by the nofiles group with 640 permissions
> 
> Adam
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