[ZendTo] Re: A few issues...

[Mark Hudson]

  On 15/06/11 10:13, Jules wrote:
>
>
> On 15/06/2011 08:55, Mark Hudson wrote:
>> Yes, that's the one.
>>
>> So changing that setting nails that one, the only other issue is with 
>> clamdscan failing (but changing the pref to use clamscan works).
> Clamscan is a lot slower. The problems with clamd and clamdscan are caused 
> by either or both of
> 1) SELinux/AppArmor not allowing clamd to read the directory. The notes on 
> installing ZendTo on an existing CentOS/RedHat/Ubuntu system will tell you 
> what you need to set.
> 2) Permissions in /var/zendto. The clamd daemon must be able to read all 
> the directories and files in /var/zendto/incoming. It doesn't run as root, 
> it runs as a user defined in /etc/clamd.conf. *That* user must be able to 
> read everything.
>
> Running clamdscan from the command line is a very quick way of debugging this.
>

Ah, sussed it. The instructions on the zendto site say to create a user 
called clamav and

usermod -a -G apache clamav

but /etc/clamd.conf says to run as a user called clam (both clam and clamav 
exist as users)

So I've usermod -a -G apache clam

And that seems to have fixed it!

Mark


	

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