Re: Problem with file Access Errors....

Darrick Hartman <[email protected]> Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:28:40 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.openantivirus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
James Kosin wrote:
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> Anyone / Everyone,
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> I have a small problem setting up samba-vscan for clamav.
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> (1)  ClamAV is setup to run as its own user clamav.  This is usually
> no problem; but, this messes with samba when I try to use samba-vscan.
> (2)  The problem is, I get errors that the file access is denied.
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> | Apr  5 09:25:18 beta smbd_vscan-clamav[23076]: ERROR: file
> | /home/jkosin/rpm/patch/clitar.patch.txt not found, not readable or
> | an error occured
> | Apr  5 09:25:18 beta smbd_vscan-clamav[23076]: ERROR: daemon failed
> | with a minor error - access to file rpm/patch/clitar.patch.txt denied
> | Apr  5 09:32:23 beta smbd_vscan-clamav[23076]: INFO: disconnected
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> 
> Any idea what I can try?

You must run clamav as root.  If you read the documentation, it will 
tell you why it's not possible to run it as another user.

Darrick

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Darrick Hartman
DJH Solutions, LLC
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