Author: Frank DeChellis Date: To: Andre van der Walt CC: exim-users Subject: RE: The saga continues RE: [Exim] Clam and Exim rejecting ALL email
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre van der Walt [mailto:avanderwalt@advtech.co.za]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:33 AM
> To: Frank DeChellis
> Subject: Re: The saga continues RE: [Exim] Clam and Exim rejecting ALL
> email
>
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> Start clamd as the same user as what you are starting exim up
> with. It is a
> permission problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andre
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank DeChellis" <frankd@???>
> To: "Frank DeChellis" <frankd@???>; "Tom Kistner"
> <tom@???>
> Cc: <exim-users@???>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 6:08 PM
> Subject: The saga continues RE: [Exim] Clam and Exim rejecting ALL email
>
>
> > Any help you can offer is appreciated.
> >
> > So now I am running ClamAV on the same box as Exim. The logs files and
> > definitions are owned by clamav who is also running clamd. it starts up
> > fine and I continue to get this error:
> >
> > 2004-03-03 11:10:45 1AyYvt-0005Fg-Dp H=213-240-195-204.ddns.cablebg.net
> > [213.240.195.204] F=<chris_is_the_stuff@???> rejected
> after DATA:
> > This message contains a virus: ( Can't access the file ERROR)
> please scan
> > your system.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > This is the output of my startup in clamd.log
> >
> > Wed Mar 3 11:06:48 2004 -> +++ Started at Wed Mar 3 11:06:48 2004
> > Wed Mar 3 11:06:48 2004 -> Log file size limited to 1048576 bytes.
> > Wed Mar 3 11:06:48 2004 -> Reading databases from /usr/pkg/share/clamav
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:08 2004 -> Protecting against 20673 viruses.
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> Unix socket file /tmp/clamd
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> Setting connection queue length to 15
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> Maximal number of threads: 10
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> Archive: Archived file size limit set to
> > 10485760 b$
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> Archive: Recursion level limit set to 5.
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> Archive: Files limit set to 1000.
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> WARNING: USING HARDCODED LIMIT: Archive:
> > Compressio$
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> Archive support enabled.
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> RAR support disabled.
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> Mail files support disabled.
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> Self checking every 3600 seconds.
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> Timeout set to 180 seconds.
> > Wed Mar 3 11:07:09 2004 -> SelfCheck: Database status OK.
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: exim-users-admin@??? [mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org]On
> > > Behalf Of Frank DeChellis
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:59 AM
> > > To: Tom Kistner
> > > Cc: exim-users@???
> > > Subject: RE: [Exim] Clam and Exim rejecting ALL email
> > >
> > >
> > > is a yous a saying I can't run ClamAV and Exim on separate servers?
> > >
> > > Frank
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Tom Kistner [mailto:tom@duncanthrax.net]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:10 AM
> > > > To: Frank DeChellis
> > > > Cc: exim-users@???
> > > > Subject: Re: [Exim] Clam and Exim rejecting ALL email
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Frank DeChellis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > ClamAV on separate server
> > > >
> > > > There is the problem. You can't do this, since the files
> being checked
> > > > are not sent over the network, just a pointer to their
> location on the
> > > > file system (which is on the exim machine).
> > > >
> > > > Even if exiscan/clamav would be able to send the files over the
> network,
> > > > I doubt you'd get much increase in overall performance due
> to the big
> IO
> > > > overhead.
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > >
> > > > /tom
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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