> That means user clamscan cannot read the file eicar. This is idenepdant of > the user that launchs clamdscan. Try to put eicar.txt in /tmp and make it > mode 777.
I did so. Clamdscan still does not see the file and returns an lstat error. I even made clamscan/clamscan the owner. -rwxrwxrwx. 1 clamscan clamscan 69 Nov 19 05:09 eicar.txt [root@zzzz tmp]# clamdscan -c /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf /tmp/eicar.txt /tmp/eicar.txt: lstat() failed: No such file or directory. ERROR ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Infected files: 0 Total errors: 1 Time: 0.001 sec (0 m 0 s) [root@ears tmp]#