I apologize for my shrill tone here... It's just under 100 degrees F. in my living room,
I'm hours behind on the work I'm supposed to be doing today, and it seems unfair that
qmail-scanner lost its mind without my doing any updates.
Anyway, I hesitate to even say this, lest I curse myself, but I think I managed to stumble
across the correct sequence of magic incantations to get clamd and/or qmail-scanner to
quit puking... At least I haven't seen any errors in the logs in the last few minutes...
just the usual torrent of spam scan messages.
Still, I would love to understand this all better... if anyone has any sage
qmail/spamassassin/clamav/vpopmail survival advice they'd like to share, I'd love to hear it!
b
Ben Munat wrote:
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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