On Mon, 31 May 2004 08:19:47 -0400 Clive Dove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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. This is a common problem on Mandrake. You can force another temp dir with the TemporaryDirectory directive in clamav.conf. -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Mon May 31 15:32:03 CEST 2004
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