[CentOS] permission problems with avamis and Centos 6.3

Thu Jan 24 18:15:52 UTC 2013
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Thank you for your suggestion, but it did not fix the permissions problem.

On 01/24/2013 10:13 AM, Rob wrote:
> usermod -a -G amavis clam

How is this different from:

gpasswd -a clam amavis

And I am still getting the permissions error.

> 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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