O.K. sorry for doing something wrong. I agree, i am new to clamav so confusion in understanding permissions.
As directed I am trying to scan directory having user clamav. In clamd.conf "User clamav" is set. drwxr-xr-x 3 clamav clamav 4096 Dec 15 21:27 test I don't know why it gives access error when user is clamav in both caes. ######## [EMAIL PROTECTED] clamav-0.80]# clamdscan -l scan.txt test /root/clamav-0.80/test: Access denied. ERROR /root/clamav-0.80/test: OK ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Infected files: 0 Time: 0.093 sec (0 m 0 s) ######### Please guide. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users