On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, McGranahan, Jamen < jamen.mcgrana...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> OK, a couple of weeks ago, I send out an email to the group about the > various errors clamd/clamav-milter were displaying. Well, today clam > crashed sendmail on all of our servers running it so I have had to stop > clamav-milter and comment out the filter information in sendmail.cf. This > leaves us unprotected, which has me greatly concerned so I need to get this > corrected ASAP. I'm first going to try to uninstall clamav-milter and > re-install it and see if that helps, but if you all have any suggestions, I > would love to hear them. Thanks! > > Today's errors: > Jan 4 09:28:56 libdig13 clamd[1236]: fd[13]: Can't create temporary > directory ERROR > Jan 4 09:28:56 libdig13 clamav-milter[1403]: Unknown reply from clamd > > Jamen McGranahan > Systems Services Librarian > Vanderbilt University LIbrary > Central Library > Room 811 > 419 21st Avenue South > Nashville, TN 37214 > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > First things I recommend checking are the settings for clamd's assigned temporary directory for extractions, folder permissions and partition status. 1) Temporary directory setting: top priority is the TemporaryDirectory value in your clamd.conf, otherwise it uses the value of TMPDIR [or TMP or TEMP on Windows] 2) Folder permissions: Now that you know where to look, ensure that clamd has the right permissions to that folder 3) Partition status: Also check space and health of the partition where that is located. 4) If you have continuing troubles, try starting with the logging in clamd.conf set to "Debug yes". Almost all of the places where a temp directory failure occurs have an associated debug message to give more detail about why it was trying to make the directory. Hope this helps, Dave R. -- --- Dave Raynor Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team dray...@sourcefire.com _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
