Hello all,
Earlier today, I discovered that clamd was complaining about permissions in my logs
(clamdscan: corrupt or unknown clamd scanner error or memory/resource/perms problem). I
have spent hours and hours trying to get this horrid piece of software to not stomp on my
email (why in the world someone would think that it's a good idea for a misconfigured
virus scanner to not allow any email through is beyond me).
I tried the instructions posted here:
http://qmail.jms1.net/clamav-qms.shtml
and here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_QMAIL_RELAY-CTRL_VPOPMAIL
Nothing worked... I went from the above error to the ever annoying "cannot open
/var/spool/qscan/qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt - did you initialise the system by
running "qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z"? - Permission denied" Annoying because I have run
"qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z" several times and it has no effect.
I think I used to just run clamd as root to avoid all this, but that didn't appear to
help. Currently, I've gone over and over all the files involved and everything's owned by
qscand and that's what clamd and freshclam are set to run as.
Based on the comments in that first link above about version 2.* of qmail-scanner, I went
ahead and unmasked that and emerged it. But that seems to have made things even worse,
since now the error messages are all about missing files in /var/spool/qscan... which
didn't even exist! I've been creating the files in that dir as they show up in error
messages in the logs, but now it's looking for /quarantine-events.db which I think is
supposed to be a BDB file... and I have no idea how to create that.
If anyone have any experience getting the evil qmail-scanner beast under control, I really
really appreciate any guidance. I've had more trouble with this one package than anything
else on gentoo. It's positively evil.
In the meantime, I'm flying totally unscanned... fire-hose of spam, phishing email,
viruses, etc.
thanks,
Ben
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