On Fri, 1 May 2015, Alex Regan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a fedora20 system with amavisd-2.9.1, clamav-0.98.6, postfix, and > spamassassin, and it's been running fine forever. I'm now having an issue with > clamav creating temporary files for amavis. clamd is running as user amavis, > yet it prints the following: > > May 1 17:02:06 mail02 clamd[25732]: > /var/spool/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20150501T165504-27729-5xw6dnm4/parts/p001: Can't > create temporary directory ERROR > > # ps axwwwu|grep clam > amavis 25732 2.8 1.5 823212 523148 ? Ssl 16:47 0:21 clamd.amavisd > -c /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf --pid /var/run/clamd.amavisd/clamd.pid > > If I change to the amavis user, I can create files in the tmp directory: > > # ls -ld /var/spool/amavisd/tmp > drwxr-x---. 9 amavis amavis 12288 May 1 17:03 /var/spool/amavisd/tmp > > Does anyone have any ideas how to troubleshoot this? Maybe there's some > tracing > I can enable to troubleshoot this?
If the process had permissions to create files/directories then you most likely were running out of free disk space or free inodes. Is amavis' scratch area located on a ram disk (tmpfs filesystem) with limited size? The error might have been caused by the concurrent handling of several large messages or compressed attachments that expand to many and/or large files. Do your logs show such events? Regards, Kees Theunissen. -- Kees Theunissen, System and network manager, Tel: +31 (0)30 6096724 Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) e-mail address: c.j.theunis...@differ.nl postal address: PO Box 1207, 3430 BE Nieuwegein, NL visitors address: Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, NL _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
