Well, not *exactly* fixed...
I started to get this error after performing an upgrade from 0.68 to 0.70
(see my post 04/21/2004). I made no changes to my autoconf options, and
no changes to my clamav.conf (apart from ThreadTimeout --> ReadTimeout).
v0.70 would cause sendmail to error upon connection from an smtp client
with the "Out of memory: cannot allocate memory" error. v0.68 does not do
this.
After seeing a post about this error being caused by the socket name being
wrong, I did a bit of troubleshooting on another system and found it was a
permissions problem on the directory where the socket lies
(/var/local/clamav).
Here are the particulars (Pease note, this this test system is running
clamav-milter, not mimedefang, I'm just running as mimedefang. Another
system exhibiting the same problem is running as clamav):
clamav is complied as follows:
./configure --enable-milter \
--enable-debug \
--with-user=mimedefang \
--with-group=mimedefang \
--with-gnu-ld \
--disable-clamuko \
--sysconfdir=/etc/clamav \
--localstatedir=/var/local/clamav \
--with-dbdir=/var/local/clamav
The socket files are /var/local/clamav/clamd.sock and
/var/local/clamav/clamav-milter.sock
The directory /var/local/clamav is owned by mimedefang with group
mimedefang. When /var/local/clamav has permissions 0700 or 0770, I get
the "cannot allocate memory" error. When it's 0777, it works fine. If I
run clamd and clamav-milter as root, it works fine. I've tried running as
mimedefang with "AllowSupplementaryGroups" enabled, but that doesn't work,
either (and I'm not entirely clear on its purpose from the notes in
clamav.conf). In any case, if /var/local/clamav has group or world write
permissions sendmail complains.
So the point of this ramble is to find out the following:
How should I have clamav configured so it's not running as root, with the
config files in /var/local/clamav (with reasonable permissions).
And what changed between v0.68 and 0.70 so as to cause this predicament (I
didn't see anything in the ChangeLog that gave much of a clue.
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