On Sep 21, 2013, at 16:36, Scott Kitterman <post...@kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, September 21, 2013 03:34:57 David Benfell wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> As near as I can tell debian's clamav is just broken. It keeps whining >> about clamd.ctl and nothing I can find on the web fixes it. > > You didn't post your original configuration, so I don't know what your > original > problem was. If you're using a Unix socket and having a Debian specific > problem, it's probably a matter of the socket not being available in the > chroot that postfix, on Debian, uses by default. Assuming this was your > original problem, there are three ways to solve it: > > 1. Make the socket available in the chroot (/var/spool/postfix/). > 2. Take postfix out of the chroot. > 3. Using TCP sockets instead. > > I use the Debian clamav packages every day. I also maintain them for the > distro. If you are having problems, I encourage you to file bugs in the > Debian > BTS. I do look at them and try to solve them. +1 on using Debian ClamAV packages without any problems. We use the milter package to integrate it with Postfix, using unix sockets. The problem people generally run into with unix sockets is one of permissions. The milter socket needs to be stored inside the Postfix chroot, and be writable by both Postfix and the milter daemon. Mvg, Joni
