I have clamav-daemon running as my my virus scanner on Ubuntu Warty 4.10 (clamav isn't Ubuntu supported software however, it's in their universe repository).
I'm finding this kind of message in my mail logs: amavis[29638]: (29638-10) Clam Antivirus-clamd FAILED - unknown status: /var/lib/amavis/amavis-amavis-20050119T223637-29880/parts: Can't access the file ERROR\n amavis[29638]: (29638-10) WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups Now Google very happily tells me that this happens when the clamav user isn't in the amavis group because of this: # ls -ld /var/lib/amavis/amavis-20050119T223637-29880/ drwxr-x--- 3 amavis amavis 4096 Jan 19 22:36 /var/lib/amavis/amavis-20050119T223637-29880/ # ls -ld /var/lib/amavis/amavis-20050119T223637-29880/parts/ drwxr-x--- 2 amavis amavis 4096 Jan 19 22:36 /var/lib/amavis/amavis-20050119T223637-29880/parts/ Which is all well and good, except that the clamav user IS in the amavis group: # id clamav uid=104(clamav) gid=104(clamav) groups=104(clamav),105(amavis) (And I've restarted both amavis and clamav, oh, five or six times just to be sure that the clamav-daemon process is running with the right permissions.) Does anyone know what else I need to do to solve this problem? Should those directories be group writable? Can I make them group writable? There's a few new viruses out and about as always, and thus it's a bad day to have the virus checker down. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
