On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:45:08AM -0400, Ace Suares said:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed clamav on Debian Woody with Qmail-Scanner. I used the debian 
> package from  deb http://people.debian.org/~sgran/debian
> 
> So far so good, but since qmail-scanner runs as user qscand and clamd runs as 
> clamd, clam can not write files in the working dir (something like /var/
> spool/qmailscan.)
> 
> I found a link that suggested changing the 'user' in clamav.conf to qscand.

Take a look at /usr/share/doc/clamav-base/README.Debian.  The suggested
fix for this sort of thing is to leave clamav running as clamav, but to
add it to the group qscand, and make sure AllowSupplementaryGroups is
set in clamav.conf.  Then you don't have nearly so many hoops to jump
through.  You also get the side benefit that a bug in clamav doesn't eat
an email, and a bug in qmail doesn't eat your logs, or your database
files.  They're still running as seperate users, but clamav just has
access to qmail's files.

HTH,
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