[Mimedefang] uvscan virus scan failing

[Todd Aiken]

> > Greetings.  I am running Mimedefang 2.33 and Spamassassin 2.54, along with
> > the latest version of Mcafee's uvscan.  As of yesterday morning, the
> > system started tempfailing all incoming mail due to a problem with the
> > virus scanner.
> 
> Call McAfee up and bitch!  Check the permissions on your .dat file; I
> bet they're completely whacked.  Chmod your dat file to 644 and all will
> work.
> 
> I had a couple of CanIt customers panic.  One of them had a .dat file
> whose permissions looked something like:
> 
> -rwS--x--t

Yep, that was it.  My scan.dat file had the same permissions.  I've made a 
change to my autoupdater to make sure that permissions are 644 immediately 
after updating.  Many thanks for the assistance!


CU L8R...

Todd A. Aiken 
Systems Analyst - Administrator
Cole Computer Centre
BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY
Lennoxville, Quebec, CANADA

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