Hi, I tried both suggested and its working fine but unable to run clamd with /opt/clamd.conf.
Even i tried running with root user and seeing error. opt directory is with 0777 permission. Strange behaviour. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Deyan Chepishev <dchepis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This is probably caused by permissions of the /opt which do not allow the > user which clamd is running as, to access this directory. > > In such cases, you can try option: > > clamdscan --stream > > In this case, if the user executing clamdscan has permissions over the > directory, clamdscan reads the files and streams them to clamd using the > clamd socket. > If you do not use this option, behavior is selected automatically, which > for scans where clamd and clamdscan are started on the same machine, is > clamd to try to directly scan the directory, which causes troubles if his > user do not have permissions to traverse the directory/files. > > > Regards, > Deyan > > > > Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> What are the directory permissions/extended permissions for /opt? >> >> Did you try sudo -u clamdUserName cat /opt/clamd.conf to see if the clamd >> user >> has permission to access the file? >> >> dp >> >> On 11/4/15 6:15 AM, P K wrote: >> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> I am seeing config file parse error when using config file inside /opt/ >>> directory. >>> >>> Curious why unable to run clamd config in /opt directory. In other >>> system >>> with 0.98.6 its working fine. >>> >>> Below are output: >>> >>> sudo /usr/sbin/clamd --version -c ./clamd.conf >>> ClamAV 0.98.7 >>> >>> >>> pk@pk-x:~$ ls -ltr /opt/clamd.conf >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1981 Nov 4 19:07 /opt/clamd.conf >>> >>> pk@pk-x:~$ ls -ltr ./clamd.conf >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1981 Nov 4 19:07 ./clamd.conf >>> >>> pk@pk-x:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/clamd -c /opt/clamd.conf >>> *ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /opt/clamd.conf* >>> >>> pk@pk-x:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/clamd -c ./clamd.conf >>> Limits: Global size limit set to 104857600 bytes. >>> Limits: File size limit set to 26214400 bytes. >>> Limits: Recursion level limit set to 10. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >>> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >>> >>> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >> >> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >> > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
