I did not get any answer about my problem; maybe I ask to the wrong mailling
list or I ask a woring question;

please could someone point me in the right place ?

thanks in advance
Roberto

On Sab, Ottobre 17, 2009 14:03, Roberto wrote:
>
> Hi
> I discover the following issue: after installing clamav-daemon on Lenny, I
> start scanning file and directories to test the clamdscan utility and I found
> when scannig private directory (the clamd daemon is running as different
> unpriv user) the command is reporting "misleading" result according to me.
> What happen is clamd report an error and no scan happen, but clamdscan report
> no virus find (but no scan had ever happened).
>
> Example:
>
> drwxr-x---  3 roby roby     4096 2009-10-17 11:55 noaccess
>
> $ clamdscan  noaccess
> /home/roby/noaccess: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
>
> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> Infected files: 0
> Time: 0.009 sec (0 m 0 s)
> r...@fmgw01:~$ echo $?
> 0
> r...@fmgw01:~$ clamdscan  -V
> ClamAV 0.95.2/9908/Sat Oct 17 11:07:01 2009
> r...@fmgw01:~$
> =================================================
>
> what I consider "misleading" is the error code "$?" returned to the shell
> (some program like qmailscan could be thinking all is fine - but actually no
> scan happened) and "Infected files: 0". I understand I can use the clamdscan
> option "--fdpass" but this is not the default behaviour, so I wondering what
> is the reason of not reporting the error to the caller ?
>
>
> thank in advance,
> Roberto
>
>


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