[Mimedefang] Enabling an antivirus in a mimedefang rpm installation
Oliver Schulze L.
oliver at samera.com.py
Fri Nov 25 17:25:49 EST 2005
Hi Kenneth,
do you run your clamd with user clamav or user defang?
I had to run clamd with user defang in order to allow MD to access
the socket. Maybe there is a better solution.
My filter is finally using clamd, now I want to tweak the installation.
Thanks
Oliver
Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, November 25, 2005 4:32 PM -0500 Kris Deugau
> <kdeugau at vianet.ca> wrote:
>
>> In the case of a third-party .rpm, probably. Most packages are built in
>> such a way that the configure script doesn't pick up quite a few things
>> - antivirus programs among them.
>
> Even if you build the RPM yourself from the tarball ("rpmbuild -ta
> mimedefang.tar.gz"), you need to enable it in the filter. The package
> disables a lot of things to avoid dependencies, so that you don't have
> to install every conceivable 3rd party package to get MD's RPM to
> install.
>
> My filter not only enables clamd but also specifies the socket
> location, because different Clam RPM's put the socket in different
> places. (I'm using the one from Fedora Extras.)
>
> $Features{'Virus:CLAMD'} = 1;
> $ClamdSock = "/var/run/clamd.mimedefang/clamd.sock";
>
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Oliver Schulze L.
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