On 11 8 2004 at 2:15 pm -0400, Michael Carmack wrote:

>No, I'm referring to clamd, not clamdscan. If you look in 
>etc/clamav.conf you'll see a line that says "User <xxx>". I'm guessing 
>that on your system "<xxx>" is the same user that you run courier as 
>(e.g. "nobody" is a common choice). Otherwise the direct file read would 
>not have worked for you.

You're right; the line was commented out and it was running as root.  Now
changed.  Thanks.

>(clamd and clamdscan are funny like that. You'd think that you could run 
>clamdscan on any file that was readable by the person calling clamdscan, 
>but that is not the case. The file actually has to be readable by clamd. 

Thanks for this explanation; I was about to ask that. :)

-ben

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