Thanks for the info I have just found the up to date rpm's which appear to
resolve the problem.
Thanks all concerned for the prompt and indulgent approach to somebody in
need.
TAVM.
Paul
On Friday 12 November 2004 17:54, Richard.Hall wrote:
> Paul,
>
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Paul Constable wrote:
> > Tim,
> > Cheers for that, it has moved it along further but still a problem
> > remains..............
> >
> > I now get:- 'malware acl condition: clamd: unable to read from socket (No
> > such file or directory)'
> >
> > This now presumably is whatever exim is offering to clamd, cannot be read
> > as there is nothing there. What would stop exim putting mails in the
> > 'scan' directory? Because that appears to be the problem at the mo.
>
> You didn't mention what versions of Exim and exiscan you are running.
> There is a problem with older versions of exiscan running against newer
> versions of ClamAV; basically exiscan closes its connection to ClamAV
> prematurely, and ClamAV gets upset in precisely the way you describe. IIRC
> the exiscan change log documents exactly when this was fixed - yes ...
>
> 21 - Remove "shutdown socket for writing" from clamd malware
> code. It seems to cause problems with the latest
> clamd 0.70 release.
>
> So an Exim/exiscan upgrade may be the way forward. (Though it may well be
> trivial to patch the exiscan you have; I think it was just a case of
> removing a call to 'shutdown()')
>
> HTH,
> Richard
>
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
> >
> > On Thursday 11 November 2004 22:23, Tim Jackson wrote:
> > > On 11 Nov 2004, Paul Constable wrote:
> > > > When running and the I get the following :- 'malware acl condition:
> > > > clamd: ClamAV returned /var/spool/exim/scan/1CS0dW-0007iD-Fl: Can't
> > > > access the file ERROR'
> > > >
> > > > This is obviously an ownership/rights problem, but having changed
> > > > each for the other's owner to no avail. Where do I go from here
> > > > ????????????
> > >
> > > If you haven't already, put the clamav user in the "exim" group and
> > > enable the AllowSupplementaryGroups option in clamd.conf.
> > >
> > > Tim
> >
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