howdy-i'm in the process of building a server for a client, and in the process i'm updating my own "install scripts" to use qmail-scanner 2.01.
my normal "./configure" line from qmail-scanner 1.25 looks like this:
./configure \
--spooldir /var/qmail/scan \
--admin virus \
--domain ___ \
--notify recips,admin \
--log-details syslog \
--qs-user clamav \
"$@"
i read through the docs for 2.01 and updated the command to include
the "--batch" option (thanks jason, this was a really good idea, i
don't remember ever seeing it before.)
when i ran my script, it barfed because "qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g" died with error code 111. qmail-scanner didn't print any kind of error message, it looks like it just died with "exit 111" in the code or something.
so i tracked it down. it turns out that even though i'm using the "-- spooldir /var/qmail/scan" option, the installer still put several files in /var/spool/qscan... and did not properly set the permissions on the /var/spool/qscan directory, or on the quarantine-events.txt and quarantine.log files within the directory, so that the qs-user (normally qscand, and in my case clamav) has permissions to read and/ or write these files as appropriate. the qs-user should also own the directory itself, so that if the quarantine.log file doesn't exist, qmail-scanner will be able to create it.
that's a side issue. reading through the docs, i expected that because of my "--spooldir" option, that all of these files would be present under /var/qmail/scan (which is where i've always installed the qmail-scanner stuff, just my personal preference.)
so i tracked THIS down. it turns out that the "configure" script has a few options which are not documented- specifically the "--etcdir" and "--logdir" options. when i added them to my "./configure" command line, everything seems to be working perfectly.
so two things need to be fixed:- if ETCDIR and/or LOGDIR are not the same as SPOOLDIR, you need to properly set the ownership and permissions of the files when "./ configure ... --install" creates them.
- the "--etcdir" and "--logidr" options need to be added to the output of "./configure --help".
and to clarify for anybody else who reads this and didn't follow the changes, this is the command line which is working on the client's server:
./configure --batch \
--spooldir /var/qmail/scan \
--etcdir /var/qmail/scan \
--logdir /var/qmail/scan \
--admin virus \
--domain ___ \
--notify recips,admin \
--scanners clamdscan \
--log-details syslog \
--qs-user clamav \
"$@"
and the last "$@" in there is because my script actually writes this
command line to a script called "go", which (1) documents the command
line used to build the software, and (2) makes it easy to run the
exact same command twice- once as "./go" to test it, and once as "./
go --install" to actually install it.
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