Hi there, On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Scott Galambos wrote:
clamav-milter making strange files in my root
Unless you've done something very strange, I doubt that clamav-milter itself is making files in the root of your filesystem.
I'm trying to install clamav 0.97.8 on Linux box and after almost every reboot I'm seeing some strange files in my root. central x64(/): ls -l -a
You can combine switches to many commands, for example ls -l -a can be written ls -la
So I take a closer look and each one says "Killing the monitor and stopping". This string is found in clamav-milter.
Are you actually running clamav-milter?
Is this an attempt to log to syslog?
I have no idea. Take a look at the configuration files in your system (and the man pages) to find out what's supposed to be logged to where.
I'm running syslog-ng, not syslog but that was never a problem before.
It's possible that you've messed up the syslog-ng configuration, it's very different from the old syslog. There's probably help available over at Balabit for such problems, it would be OT here.
Any know why this is happening? How do I stop or fix it?
It's almost certainly happening because you made it happen. Are you running a mail server? You seem to be rebooting the machine rather often, which makes me think that it isn't a mail server. In that case I wonder why (or as I implied, if) you are even running clamav-milter, which is designed primarily for filtering mail - a 'milter' is a mail filter, it does nothing unless it is contacted by another process, to pass data to the milter to scan for patterns held in a database which resides in memory. It looks like something in your startup scripts and/or configuration files is screwy. I suspect you attempted to install clamav-milter on your system incorrectly or perhaps even accidentally. Without knowing a lot more about your system it's difficult to give specific advice, but if you tell us exactly what you're trying to do with the system it may start us off in the right direction. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
