[Pkg-clamav-devel] clamav-milter problems

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Thu Apr 30 13:49:24 UTC 2009


> 
> Steve,
> 
> Just tried to update clamav-milter and the other clamav programs to the
> new version you put out. We are running "Etch" here and the new version
> 0.95.1+dfsg-0volatile2.
> 
> Anyway I cannot find out what command lines are valid for the
> clamav-milter program. The defaults that I had in the
> /etc/default/clamav-milter
> OPTIONS="--max-children=10 -oldq --timeout=300 --no-check-cf" made it puke.
> 

/etc/default/clamav-milter is not shipped in the new package anymore, none of
the above options are available as command line parameters anymore. Instead,
check /etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf.

> Other problems, when I removed the options in the default file and started
> the /etc/init.d/clamav-milter start I got:
> Starting Sendmail milter plugin for ClamAV:
> clamav-milter/usr/sbin/clamav-milter: unrecognized option `--pidfile'
> ERROR: Unknown option passed
> ERROR: Can't parse command line options
>  failed!
> 

Hmm, yes, known bug. Sorry.

> I took out all the --pidfile in the start up script and I did manage to
> get the program started but sendmail complained about the milter socket.
> So I edited the /etc/mail/m4/clamav-milter.m4 file to show the proper
> socket.
> 

You might want to edit /etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf instead.

> Now when a mail is send out from this server, the syslog used to show:
> 
> Apr 28 06:31:36 smtp sm-mta[958]: n3SDVXtr000958: Milter add: header:
> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/9298/Tue Apr 28 04:47:45
> 2009 on smtp.gssf.org
> Apr 28 06:31:36 smtp sm-mta[958]: n3SDVXtr000958: Milter add: header:
> X-Virus-Status: Clean
> 
> Now it just shows:
> 
> Apr 29 04:15:01 smtp clamd[31852]: fd[11]: OK
> 
> And I see nothing about a virus scan when the message shows up on the
> other side in the message headers. Look at the headers of this message and
> see if there is a header showing the virus scan.
> 
> Anyway that is what I have. I'm going to hold off on updating my other
> mail servers till I get this figured out.
> 
> Thanks for all your help,
> 

I think the AddHeader option of /etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf should do the
trick. It's not as verbose as the old one, but you'll get a header at least.

Best,
Michael

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