I had the same problem on my Ubuntu Jaunty system: chr...@ernie:~/fixtures$ clamdscan /home/chrisb/fixtures: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Infected files: 0 Time: 0.002 sec (0 m 0 s) The permissions on that directory, and all parents, should allow access: chr...@ernie:~/fixtures$ ls -ld /home /home/chrisb /home/chrisb/fixtures drwxr-xr-x 9 root staff 4096 2009-03-20 17:31 /home drwxr-xr-x 163 chrisb chrisb 61440 2009-10-20 13:09 /home/chrisb drwxrwxr-x 2 chrisb staff 4096 2009-10-20 12:51 /home/chrisb/fixtures Running the same test on a Debian system is fine, which led me to check the diff between Ubuntu and Debian clamav packages. The main one I noticed was that apparmor is enabled on Ubuntu. Sure enough, that's the problem: chr...@ernie:~/fixtures$ sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor stop * Unloading AppArmor profiles ...done. chr...@ernie:~/fixtures$ clamdscan /home/chrisb/fixtures/eicar.com.txt: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND /home/chrisb/fixtures/eicar.com: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND /home/chrisb/fixtures/eicar_com.zip: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND /home/chrisb/fixtures/eicarcom2.zip: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Infected files: 4 Time: 0.004 sec (0 m 0 s) It looks like the default apparmor profile is restricting the files that clamd can read, which totally breaks clamdscan. -- clamdscan says Access denied. ERROR on all files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/450250 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs