Dear all,
Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. I'm running clamav-milter ClamAV
0.88.5 on my Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r3 Kernel 2.6.16.14.
I have disabled LogFile by commented it out in clamd.conf (I'm using
Syslog). But my console are always filled-up with strange error
messages like this:
/var/spool/virusmails/061021/k9KGfp2J003979.Worm.Stration.JF: Invalid argument
/var/spool/virusmails/061021/k9KGj35k003994.Worm.Stration.JF: Invalid argument
After some debugging, I found that it appears whenever clamav-milter
encounters a virus. Futhermore, I found that at
clamav-milter/clamav-milter.c, line 4217, there is such thing:
======================
if(ret < 0) {
/* fall back if sendfile fails, which shouldn't happen */
perror(newfile);
close(fout);
======================
I tried to comment out that "perror(newfile)", and the strange error
messsage is gone.
I guess this is to record an error when sendfile() is not available.
However, since on Linux 2.6, the current Linux kernel, sendfile() is not
available, and sendfile() is only for Linux, is it really necessary to
log that error message? It only pollutes the console, and we are not
able to solve it even in the future (the Linux kernel group removed
sendfile() on purpose).
I'm attaching a simple patch to disable it. Hope this helps.
Please tell me if there is any problem. Thank you.
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diff -u -r clamav-0.88.5.orig/clamav-milter/clamav-milter.c
clamav-0.88.5/clamav-milter/clamav-milter.c
- --- clamav-0.88.5.orig/clamav-milter/clamav-milter.c 2006-04-30
03:14:28.000000000 +0800
+++ clamav-0.88.5/clamav-milter/clamav-milter.c 2006-10-21 02:38:57.000000000
+0800
@@ -4213,8 +4213,6 @@
ret = sendfile(fout, fin, &offset, statb.st_size);
close(fin);
if(ret < 0) {
- - /* fall back if sendfile fails, which shouldn't happen */
- - perror(newfile);
close(fout);
unlink(newfile);
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