[CentOS] permission problems with avamis and Centos 6.3

Thu Jan 24 15:13:45 UTC 2013
Rob <linux at robertpaasche.net>

usermod -a -G amavis clam
service clamd restart

be happy

On 24.01.2013, at 04:16, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> I am trying to follow:
> 
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd
> 
> Which seems to really be written for Centos 5, with just some selinux 
> references for Centos 6.  There are real problems here for Centos 6 with 
> the userids section.
> 
> It gives the following command and result:
> 
> cat /etc/passwd | grep "amavis\|clamav"
> clamav:x:101:102:Clam Anti Virus Checker:/var/clamav:/sbin/nologin
> amavis:x:102:103:Amavis email scan user:/var/amavis:/bin/sh
> 
> But my Centos 6.3 has:
> 
> clam:x:494:490:Clam Anti Virus Checker:/var/lib/clamav:/sbin/nologin
> amavis:x:493:489::/var/spool/amavisd:/sbin/nologin
> 
> Note the difference in userid clam instead of clamav.  So this causes 
> problems with the group recommendation:
> 
> In addition, the clamav user should automatically have been added to the 
> amavis group:
> 
> # groups clamav
> clamav : clamav amavis
> 
> If not, you can manually add clamav to the amavis group:
> 
> gpasswd -a clamav amavis
> 
> 
> so I did:
> 
> gpasswd -a clam amavis
> 
> 
> So far, it seems just changing what userid is now used by clamav...
> 
> But in testing for spam I see the following in /var/log/maillog
> 
> Jan 23 15:56:17 test1 amavis[25669]: (25669-01) (!)run_av (ClamAV-clamd) 
> FAILED - unexpected , 
> output="/var/spool/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20130123T155617-25669/parts: 
> lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR\n"
> 
> I checked this directory tree and all along the tree the permissions are 
> to amavis:amavis
> 
> So where is my permission problem?
> 
> 
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