Lima Union wrote:
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Jason Bertoch<ja...@electronet.net> wrote:
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From: clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net [mailto:clamav-users-
boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Lima Union
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:41 PM
To: ClamAV users ML
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
You mean substituting clamdscan for clamscan ?
This is the result:
clamscan eicar.txt
eicar.txt: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND
----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 678203
Engine version: 0.95.3
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 1
Data scanned: 0.00 MB
Data read: 0.00 MB (ratio 0.00:1)
Time: 1.864 sec (0 m 1 s)
But clamdscan still doesn't work... :(
It's likely that the user clamd runs as doesn't have correct permissions to
access the file you're scanning. An earlier suggestion was close but, I
think, missing something. Try adding a hyphen at the end:
cat eicar.txt | clamdscan -
Your suggestion works! so this is a file permission problem ? where
should I look ?
Thanks!
Hi Lima,
I should let the experts answer, but I'll take a stab at it just to
find out for myself. One of the differences between clamscan and
clamdscan is that clamscan runs as the user requesting it whereas
clamdscan runs as a special user (usually clamd, I believe), which
would be in a special administrative category allowing it to read
across multiple user's files.
So you probably do not have a file permission problem per se and that
is why the hyphen option is included so that when you run clamdscan as
a normal user you can do what you were trying to do.
I would recommend consulting "man clamdscan" for the options and
descriptions. Let's see what others have to say.
--Robert
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