[Mimedefang] MD 2.51/clamav .88.1 failure

[Alan Premselaar]

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Richard J. Kieran wrote:
> On Friday, 4/7, I updated clamav from version .88 to .88.1. When I did so, virus scanning broke. Maillog was filled with entries like:
> Apr  7 15:49:23 hoover mimedefang.pl[66764]: Problem running virus scanner: code=999, category=cannot-execute, action=tempfail 
> Apr  7 15:49:23 hoover sm-mta[67374]: k37JnNo4067374: Milter: data, reject=451 4.3.0 Problem running virus-scanner
> Apr  7 15:49:23 hoover sm-mta[67374]: k37JnNo4067374: to=<sbrege at rhnet.org>, delay=00:00:00, pri=145673, stat=Problem running virus-scanner
> 
> The clamd.log showed no problems. It seemed to be happy as a, well, clam. I'm running MD version 2.51 on FreeBSD 5.4. 
> 
> I was able to fix it by re-installing clamav .88
> Has anyone else seen this problem? Do I need to update MD? Any other thoughts?
> Richard

Richard,

 There's been some conversation on the clamav list about problems with
the config files since upgrading to 0.88.1 (even not associated with
mimedefang).

you should check your clamav config files to make sure you don't have
more than one space between the directive and the value, specifically in
relation to the LocalSocket directive.

apparently while the following works:

LocalSocket /tmp/name/of/socket/file

the following is broken in 0.88.1:

LocalSocket  /tmp/name/of/socket/file    (notice the extra space?)

So far on the clamav users list there's no talk about a patch or a fix
for this problem other than to check your config files for extraenous
spaces.

hope this helps.

Alan
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