On Thursday 04 December 2003 7:29 pm, Luciano wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a problem and I installed a MailScanner and the Clamav six time and
> the RH9, three.
>
> In the maillog, when MailScanner analyzes the message (a mail with
> eicar.com attached), it write
>
> ***Dec 4 17:25:18 mailx MailScanner[5354]: ERROR: Unable to create
> temporary directory. ***
>
> I wrote to Julian Field, from MailScanner, and he told me this message
> isn't present in source of MailScanner so must be a message from Clamav.
>
> If I change the 'Virus Scanner' in MailScanner.conf to none, the error not
> happen.
Do you have a /tmp directory on your system?
Do the permissions on this directory allow the clamav user to write to it?
Do you have the $TMPDIR environment variable set? (If so, what is it)?
It is not difficult to find the text of this error message in the ClamAV
source code, and to identify which section of the code can produce it. It
is also fairly self-explanatory - it says that ClamAV was unable to create
itself a working directory in /tmp (or wherever your system has allocated for
temporary usage by applications).
It is almost certainly a permissions problem.
Antony.
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