On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:37:05PM -0500, John said: > Hello all, > > I have searched the archives, FAQ, and docs, but was unable to find any > info I could use. If I have missed it please feel free to RTFM > (hopefully with a link) me. > > I have a public email/web/dns server, although it does these functions > very well, if I add email scanning (spamassassin) to the process, it > tends to bring the machine to it's knees. I solved this problem by > moving the actual spam scanning to another machine. I figured that > because clamd can be run as a daemon, I should be able to do the same > with virus scanning, by now, I'm sure, you can figure out it is not working. > > I'm running exim4-daemon-heavy with exiscan on Debian(sarge). The error > I get is: > > malware acl condition: clamd: ClamAV returned > /var/spool/exim4/scan/[message-id]: Access denied. ERROR > > I suspect clamd on the remote server is looking on it's own file system > and not finding the file. Can I pass the file to be scanned via the > network? What am I doing wrong? Or am I missing the point entirely, and > clamd will not work via network.
clamd itself works via the network. However, the exiscan code makes a connection to the named clamd process, and issues a 'SCAN /var/spool/exim4/scan/$meesage_id/' request. So the remote server does indeed try to scan it's own file system. The only way around this, AFAICT, is to network mount the scan/ directory onto the remote machine, if you must do it this way. However, I have found clam to be a very lightweight process, even on fairly heavily loaded machines, and so running it locally with exim would be my advice. HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | "Bureaucracy is the enemy of | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | innovation." -- Mark Shepherd, former | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | President and CEO of Texas Instruments | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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