Re: [CentOS] Clamd not working

[AnneWilson]

On Friday 27 June 2008 23:35:35 Paul Schoonderwoerd wrote:
> On Friday 27 June 2008 19:43:06 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > rm /var/clamav/* -rf
> > which will remove all the signatures. Don't worry, you'll get them
> > back in the next step. As root, type
> > freshclam -v
> > And that will download all the necessary signatures again.
> > 
> >
> > At that point I thought all was well - until I had to reboot, when I
> > found that it hung with a message (from memory) 'self-checking 1800'. 
> > Using Interactive boot I discovered that it came from clamd.
> >
> > I'm guessing that daily.cld  main.cld  and mirrors.dat are being sought
> > somewhere other than /var/clamav.  Maybe a symlink is required?  If
> > someone with a working clamd could advise me I'd be most grateful.  For
> > now I have had to chkconfig clamd off.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Does the /var/clamav dir still exist ? It is in the clamd rpm.
> mirrors.dat, daily.cld and main.cld are in /var/clamav
>
> It seems easiest to me to reinstall clamd and clamav.
>
It does.  The original install was Dag's and worked without a problem.  Then 
came an update which broke ClamTK's operation.  With the help of the ClamTK 
dev that was fixed, but now I have this problem at bootup.  What I haven't 
tried, and will today, is booting with chkconfig off, but then starting clamd 
from the CLI.  If that is problem-free maybe I will need to talk to Dag.

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Re: [CentOS] Clamd not working

[AnneWilson]

On Friday 27 June 2008 23:35:35 Paul Schoonderwoerd wrote:
> On Friday 27 June 2008 19:43:06 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > rm /var/clamav/* -rf
> > which will remove all the signatures. Don't worry, you'll get them
> > back in the next step. As root, type
> > freshclam -v
> > And that will download all the necessary signatures again.
> > 
> >
> > At that point I thought all was well - until I had to reboot, when I
> > found that it hung with a message (from memory) 'self-checking 1800'. 
> > Using Interactive boot I discovered that it came from clamd.
> >
> > I'm guessing that daily.cld  main.cld  and mirrors.dat are being sought
> > somewhere other than /var/clamav.  Maybe a symlink is required?  If
> > someone with a working clamd could advise me I'd be most grateful.  For
> > now I have had to chkconfig clamd off.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Does the /var/clamav dir still exist ? It is in the clamd rpm.
> mirrors.dat, daily.cld and main.cld are in /var/clamav
>
> It seems easiest to me to reinstall clamd and clamav.
>
I tried starting clamd from a ssh session and this is what I saw:

service clamd start
Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: Limits: Global size limit set to 104857600 
bytes.
Limits: File size limit set to 26214400 bytes.
Limits: Recursion level limit set to 16.
Limits: Files limit set to 1.
Archive support enabled.
Algorithmic detection enabled.
Portable Executable support enabled.
ELF support enabled.
Detection of broken executables enabled.
Mail files support enabled.
OLE2 support enabled.
PDF support enabled.
HTML support enabled.
Self checking every 1800 seconds.
Socket file removed.
Pid file removed.
--- Stopped at Sat Jun 28 10:13:34 2008
   [  OK  ]
 It appeared to hang at the 'self checking' line, and I left it for several 
minutes before using Ctrl-C.  Is this something I have to let it do to 
correct things, or is it something that should not be happening?  It is the 
same 'self checking' line that appears to hang bootup.

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Re: [CentOS] Clamd not working

[AnneWilson]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 13:49:24 Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> AnneWilson wrote:
> > I tried starting clamd from a ssh session and this is what I saw:
> >
> > service clamd start
> > Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: Limits: Global size limit set to
> > 104857600 bytes.
> > Limits: File size limit set to 26214400 bytes.
> > Limits: Recursion level limit set to 16.
> > Limits: Files limit set to 1.
> > Archive support enabled.
> > Algorithmic detection enabled.
> > Portable Executable support enabled.
> > ELF support enabled.
> > Detection of broken executables enabled.
> > Mail files support enabled.
> > OLE2 support enabled.
> > PDF support enabled.
> > HTML support enabled.
> > Self checking every 1800 seconds.
> > Socket file removed.
> > Pid file removed.
> > --- Stopped at Sat Jun 28 10:13:34 2008
> >[  OK  ]
> >  It appeared to hang at the 'self checking' line, and I left it for
> > several minutes before using Ctrl-C.
>
> It looks as if it isn't started as a daemon from within your start
> script (meaning that it doesn't detach and go into the background).
>
> Do you somehow have an uncommented
>
> Foreground
>
> in your /etc/clamd.conf?
>
Got it Ralph!  I don't know why it was uncommented, when it had worked 
previously, but I have fixed that and now it restarts without a problem.  

Thanks

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Re: [CentOS] Clamd not working

[AnneWilson]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 13:31:14 Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:43:06 +0100:
> > I'm guessing that daily.cld  main.cld  and mirrors.dat are being sought
> > somewhere other than /var/clamav.
>
> did you test if clamscan works?
>
As such, no, but as far as I know, ClamTK is just a gui front-end to clamscan, 
and that works.  Ralph found the problem.  For some reason 'Foreground' was 
uncommented.

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Re: [CentOS] Clamd not working

[AnneWilson]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 13:49:24 Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> AnneWilson wrote:
> > I tried starting clamd from a ssh session and this is what I saw:
> >
> > service clamd start
> > Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: Limits: Global size limit set to
> > 104857600 bytes.
> > Limits: File size limit set to 26214400 bytes.
> > Limits: Recursion level limit set to 16.
> > Limits: Files limit set to 1.
> > Archive support enabled.
> > Algorithmic detection enabled.
> > Portable Executable support enabled.
> > ELF support enabled.
> > Detection of broken executables enabled.
> > Mail files support enabled.
> > OLE2 support enabled.
> > PDF support enabled.
> > HTML support enabled.
> > Self checking every 1800 seconds.
> > Socket file removed.
> > Pid file removed.
> > --- Stopped at Sat Jun 28 10:13:34 2008
> >[  OK  ]
> >  It appeared to hang at the 'self checking' line, and I left it for
> > several minutes before using Ctrl-C.
>
> It looks as if it isn't started as a daemon from within your start
> script (meaning that it doesn't detach and go into the background).
>
> Do you somehow have an uncommented
>
> Foreground
>
> in your /etc/clamd.conf?
>
One more question, please.

My logs this morning show

/etc/cron.daily/freshclam:

connect(): No such file or directory

It does exist, but it is owned root:root.  

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 456 Jun  9 19:53 /etc/cron.daily/freshclam

Shouldn't this be owned by clamav?  Are there other files I should check for 
ownership?

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Re: [CentOS] New yum search behavior is awful/useless

[AnneWilson]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 18:48:16 Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Anyone already tried yum search after the 5.2 upgrade?
>
> yum search perl-MIME-tools
> 
> perl-MIME-tools.noarch : Perl modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME
> entities
> perl-MIME-tools.noarch : Perl modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME
> entities
> perl-MIME-tools.noarch : Perl modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME
> entities
>
> That *used* to tell if it's installed (and from where) and from which
> repositories which version is available. This information is all gone now.
> Also gone is the description. I can get the description from info and the
> installed status from list, but the repo information is completely gone
> now it seems. In this state yum search is pretty useless.
> Am I missing something? man yum and yum.conf don't list any options to get
> a more useful behavior.
>
> Kai

Just type 'yum' without parameters, to get a list of possibilities.  I 
think 'yum list' may be what you are looking for.  (I don't have Fedora or 
CentOS on this laptop so I can't check.)

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Re: [CentOS] Clamd not working

[AnneWilson]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 19:41:56 Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> AnneWilson wrote:
> > One more question, please.
> >
> > My logs this morning show
> >
> > /etc/cron.daily/freshclam:
> >
> > connect(): No such file or directory
> >
> > It does exist, but it is owned root:root.
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 456 Jun  9 19:53 /etc/cron.daily/freshclam
> >
> > Shouldn't this be owned by clamav?  Are there other files I should check
> > for ownership?
>
> No, and this is not the error. What happens when you run freshclam by
> hand?
>
freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Sat Jun 28 19:58:20 2008
main.cld is up to date (version: 47, sigs: 312304, f-level: 31, builder: sven)
daily.cld is up to date (version: 7583, sigs: 19723, f-level: 31, builder: 
mcichosz)

I seem to have been getting the daily updates.  I've not seen the error 
message before.  Perhaps it's just because clamd was not started at bootup 
(or at all before freshclam ran), do you think?  

Since you found my problem earlier today clamd is running.  Perhaps I should 
wait to see what logwatch tells me in the morning.

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Re: [CentOS] Clamd not working

[AnneWilson]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 20:38:15 Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> AnneWilson wrote:
> > I seem to have been getting the daily updates.  I've not seen the error
> > message before.  Perhaps it's just because clamd was not started at
> > bootup (or at all before freshclam ran), do you think?
>
> Yes. Because freshclam tries to tell clamd that there have been updates,
> so that clamd reloads the databases. So if clamd wasn't running,
> freshclam cannot connect to it.
>
Immediately after the update to clamav it wasn't running, but I got a 
different message then, so I didn't recognise this one.  I'll let you know 
what logwatch says in the morning.  Thanks for the help

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Re: [CentOS] Sendmail with Google Apps SMTP

[AnneWilson]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 19:58:58 John R Pierce wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > Michael Holmes wrote:
> >> I use Google Apps for my domain, hosted on a CentOS server. How could
> >> I setup my sendmail.mc  to route Sendmail mails
> >> through the Gmail SMTP?
> >>
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > look up : sendmail smarthost
>
> complicated by google requirnig TLA authentication and SSL on a
> nonstandard port for SMTP relaying.
>
But the instructions on their website are quite clear.  I set up my EeePC to 
use smtp through google while I was on holiday.

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Re: [CentOS] Sendmail with Google Apps SMTP

[AnneWilson]

On Sunday 29 June 2008 02:33:13 Neil Cherry wrote:
> AnneWilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 June 2008 19:58:58 John R Pierce wrote:
> >> Karanbir Singh wrote:
> >>> Michael Holmes wrote:
> >>>> I use Google Apps for my domain, hosted on a CentOS server. How could
> >>>> I setup my sendmail.mc <http://sendmail.mc> to route Sendmail mails
> >>>> through the Gmail SMTP?
> >>>>
> >>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> look up : sendmail smarthost
> >>
> >> complicated by google requirnig TLA authentication and SSL on a
> >> nonstandard port for SMTP relaying.
> >
> > But the instructions on their website are quite clear.  I set up my EeePC
> > to use smtp through google while I was on holiday.
>
> Using sendmail? What link was this?

I use sendmail.postfix, simply setting KMail with the settings listed in 
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799.  Doesn't that 
supply what you want?

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Re: [CentOS] Clamd not working

[AnneWilson]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 21:30:51 AnneWilson wrote:
> On Saturday 28 June 2008 20:38:15 Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > AnneWilson wrote:
> > > I seem to have been getting the daily updates.  I've not seen the error
> > > message before.  Perhaps it's just because clamd was not started at
> > > bootup (or at all before freshclam ran), do you think?
> >
> > Yes. Because freshclam tries to tell clamd that there have been updates,
> > so that clamd reloads the databases. So if clamd wasn't running,
> > freshclam cannot connect to it.
>
> Immediately after the update to clamav it wasn't running, but I got a
> different message then, so I didn't recognise this one.  I'll let you know
> what logwatch says in the morning.  Thanks for the help
>
This morning's report ended with ' Database correctly reloaded (332027 
signatures)', so it looks as though the problem is solved.  I haven't tested 
a reboot, but I think it's safe to assume that 'Foreground' was the problem.

Thanks for all the help

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[CentOS] Copy of own messages

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For some reason I'm no longer seeing copies of my own messages.  I've checked 
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos and the preferences setting 
is still fine.  Does anyone know what the problem might be?  Thanks

Anne
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