The problem initially reported in Bug #548234 is happening again. Here are the permissions on /var/spool/amavisd with a default installation of amavisd-new:

# ls -ld /var/spool/amavisd
drwx--x---. 8 amavis amavis 4096 May 10 13:27 /var/spool/amavisd

# rpm -q --info amavisd-new
Name        : amavisd-new
Version     : 2.8.0
Release     : 5.fc19

The permissions and group ownership for /var/spool/amavisd should be:

# ls -ld /var/spool/amavisd
drwxrwx---. 8 amavis clamupdate 4096 May 10 13:27 /var/spool/amavisd

    ^^^              ^^^^^^^^^^


+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #548234 +++

clamav-update (freshclam) is unable to notify clamav of updates to the database via local socket.

This is on a fresh newly installed Fedora 12 system (not an upgrade). The following package versions are installed:

clamav-0.95.2-5.fc12.i686
clamav-lib-0.95.2-5.fc12.i686
clamav-server-0.95.2-5.fc12.i686
clamav-filesystem-0.95.2-5.fc12.noarch
clamav-update-0.95.2-5.fc12.i686
clamav-data-0.95.2-5.fc12.noarch
amavisd-new-2.6.4-1.fc12.noarch


How reproducible:

Every time.


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Delete /var/lib/clamav/daily.cld
2. Run freshclam


Actual results:

Freshclam gets the following error:

WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock
connect(): Permission denied


Expected results:

Notify works correctly.


Additional info:

I have configured /etc/freshclam.conf with 

AllowSupplementaryGroups yes

and also added the clamupdate user to the amavis group:

# grep -E "(amavis|clamupdate)" /etc/passwd
clamupdate:x:490:471:Clamav database update user:/var/lib/clamav:/sbin/nologin
amavis:x:489:470::/var/spool/amavisd:/sbin/nologin

# grep -E "(amavis|clamupdate)" /etc/group
clamupdate:x:471:
amavis:x:470:clamupdate

I can also confirm that freshclam is using the clamupdate user and is loading the supplementary amavis group via strace, where I can see this information near the top of the trace:

setgroups32(2, [471, 470])              = 0
setgid32(471)                           = 0
setuid32(490)                           = 0

However, freshclam still fails. This is the access failure from the strace:

connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock"}, 110) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Permissions on the clamd.sock file are as follows:

# ls -l /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock
srwxrwxrwx 1 amavis amavis 0 2009-12-16 19:04 /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock

# stat /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock
  File: `/var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock'
  Size: 0         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   socket
Device: fd01h/64769d	Inode: 5243668     Links: 1
Access: (0777/srwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (  489/  amavis)   Gid: (  470/  amavis)
Access: 2009-12-16 19:07:10.706297129 -0500
Modify: 2009-12-16 19:04:36.167296751 -0500
Change: 2009-12-16 19:04:36.167296751 -0500

--- Additional comment from Enrico Scholz on 2009-12-17 03:38:52 EST ---

what are the permissions for the /var/spool/amavisd directory?  Are there SELinux avcs?

--- Additional comment from Raman Gupta on 2009-12-17 12:04:13 EST ---

Yup, /var/spool/amavisd directory permissions are set to 700 -- sorry I should have noticed that. Changing them to 770 works.

Should changing these directory perms be permanently applied to the amavisd-new package? The user/group is amavis and the amavis group has no other users in it by default, so changing the perms to 770 is effectively the same access level by default. However, changing the perm to 770 in the package would allow clamav notifications to work as expected out of the box (with the appropriate config and supplementary group entries of course, but a user expects to make those) [1]. It would also prevent people's notifications from breaking every time there is an update to the amavisd-new package, and the directory permissions are reset.

If you think this is a good idea, could you change the component to amavisd-new and mark this as an "enhancement"?

[1] Note I don't have selinux enabled so perhaps there might be a package change to selinux perms as well.

--- Additional comment from Enrico Scholz on 2010-01-17 05:06:24 EST ---

reassigned to amavisd-new

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--- Additional comment from Raman Gupta on 2010-12-01 23:21:45 EST ---

This is still a problem on Fedora 14 (freshly installed system).

A workaround is to use the yum-plugin-post-transaction-actions plugin to change the permissions of /var/spool/amavisd after every update to the amavisd package. However, that really shouldn't be necessary.

--- Additional comment from Fedora Update System on 2011-09-18 22:39:47 EDT ---

amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.fc15

--- Additional comment from Fedora Update System on 2011-09-18 22:40:31 EDT ---

amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.fc16

--- Additional comment from Fedora Update System on 2011-09-19 14:31:17 EDT ---

Package amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

--- Additional comment from Fedora Update System on 2011-10-02 14:14:46 EDT ---

amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

--- Additional comment from Fedora Update System on 2011-10-02 19:06:03 EDT ---

amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.