I am quite familiar with linux but am very new to clamav. Mu objective run my son's incoming mail through clamav and spamassassin using p3scan. The reason is that while I use linux exclusively, my son uses windows2000 almost exclusively and while I have persuaded him to fetch his mal using Thunderbird in linux, he would prefer to answer it using windows as that is where he does most of his other computing.
Thunderbird does not have the capability to pipe to third party applications, so I intend to use p3scan with spamassassin and clamav to do virus checking and a more complete spam checking than Thunderbird offers. The thunderbird mailbox will be in a vfat partition where it can be shared between windows and linux so that my son can read the mail fetched in linux using either system. I plan to disable the windows mail fetch but allow him to send mail from windows. So to start putting it together, I started testing the components and instantly ran into a problem. I ran clamd from a root prompt and got this message: LibClamAV Error: cli_cvdload(): Can't create temporary directory /root/tmp/clamav-39c79127f6c8ccfa I tried resetting the permissions for /root/tmp/ but that made no difference. I cannot find a way of getting clamd to use a different temporary directory although I have read the documentation that came with the rpm package and the documentation on the clamav site. What am I doing wrong? What am I missing. BTW clamscan and freshclam works fine as does their windows equivalent. The current clamav install consists of these packages from Mandrake cooker: clamav-db-0.71-3mdk clamav-0.71-3mdk clamd-0.71-3mdk libclamav1-0.71-3mdk The packages set the ownerships as clamav and the group as root which somehow doesn't look right. Also, is there any reason other than speed why I could not pipe the mail through clamscan instead of using the daemon, perhaps setting it to output to stdout so that p3scan can use it? Any help will be appreciated. Clive ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
