[Mimedefang] Re: [Clamav-users] Once again a Newbe question

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Mon Nov 21 00:16:35 EST 2005


On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 21:49, Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> On 11/20/05, Darryl Baker <dpb at bl.com> wrote:
> > I'm building a new system with Sendmail 8.13.5, ClamAV 0.87.1, and
> > MIMEDefang 2.49. I'm tearing out what little hair I have left trying
> > to get everyone to play together. First it was sock permission
> > problems for the MIMEDefang socket. The it was finding the Clamd
> > socket. Now MIMEDefang can't talk to Clamd on the socket. Anyone have
> > a simple cheat sheet with who owns what and the mode they should be
> > so everything just works as advertised and I can get on with tuning
> > the rules?
> >
> 
> The general way I have seen mimedefang+clamav has been with mimedefang
> calling the clam process versus using clamd. In any case, all the
> items that you are wanting to talk need to talk should run in the same
> ownership mode. Normally this is the defang user.

In my setup this translates to:

LocalSocket /var/spool/MIMEDefang/clamd.sock
User defang

In clamd.conf - and you'll probably want to adjust some
of the other defaults in their regarding size, recursion
and archive handling.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com





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