minor problems with qmail-scanner-2.01 install process

howdy-

i'm in the process of building a server for a client, and in the  
process i'm updating my own "install scripts" to use qmail-scanner 2.01.

my normal "./configure" line from qmail-scanner 1.25 looks like this:

./configure \
	--spooldir /var/qmail/scan \
	--admin virus \
	--domain ___ \
	--notify recips,admin \
	--log-details syslog \
	--qs-user clamav \
	"$@"

i read through the docs for 2.01 and updated the command to include  
the "--batch" option (thanks jason, this was a really good idea, i  
don't remember ever seeing it before.)

when i ran my script, it barfed because "qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g"  
died with error code 111. qmail-scanner didn't print any kind of  
error message, it looks like it just died with "exit 111" in the code  
or something.

so i tracked it down. it turns out that even though i'm using the "-- 
spooldir /var/qmail/scan" option, the installer still put several  
files in /var/spool/qscan... and did not properly set the permissions  
on the /var/spool/qscan directory, or on the quarantine-events.txt  
and quarantine.log files within the directory, so that the qs-user  
(normally qscand, and in my case clamav) has permissions to read and/ 
or write these files as appropriate. the qs-user should also own the  
directory itself, so that if the quarantine.log file doesn't exist,  
qmail-scanner will be able to create it.

that's a side issue. reading through the docs, i expected that  
because of my "--spooldir" option, that all of these files would be  
present under /var/qmail/scan (which is where i've always installed  
the qmail-scanner stuff, just my personal preference.)

so i tracked THIS down. it turns out that the "configure" script has  
a few options which are not documented- specifically the "--etcdir"  
and "--logdir" options. when i added them to my "./configure" command  
line, everything seems to be working perfectly.

so two things need to be fixed:

- if ETCDIR and/or LOGDIR are not the same as SPOOLDIR, you need to  
properly set the ownership and permissions of the files when "./ 
configure ... --install" creates them.

- the "--etcdir" and "--logidr" options need to be added to the  
output of "./configure --help".

and to clarify for anybody else who reads this and didn't follow the  
changes, this is the command line which is working on the client's  
server:

./configure --batch \
         --spooldir /var/qmail/scan \
         --etcdir /var/qmail/scan \
         --logdir /var/qmail/scan \
         --admin virus \
         --domain ___ \
         --notify recips,admin \
         --scanners clamdscan \
         --log-details syslog \
         --qs-user clamav \
         "$@"

and the last "$@" in there is because my script actually writes this  
command line to a script called "go", which (1) documents the command  
line used to build the software, and (2) makes it easy to run the  
exact same command twice- once as "./go" to test it, and once as "./ 
go --install" to actually install it.

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