Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 174309
clamav-milter functionality failures
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:18 EST
Description of problem: clamav-milter: If a configuration file is declared, it does not appear to be loading with clamav-milter. Neither form of the command line option work (-c FILE -or- --config-file=FILE). It fails if either invoked directly from the command line or started as a daemon. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): clamav-0.87.1-1.fc4 clamav-milter-0.87.1-1.fc4 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: see additional info section symptoms Actual results: functionality missing (see additional info section) Expected results: config file functionality Additional info: Symptoms: * If a log file location is declared in the config file it is NOT created. NO log entries are produced even if the file is created manually and permissions opened so that anyone can see and write to the file. * If a pid file is declared in the config file it is NOT created. Again, permissions were changed to allow anyone to write to the declared directory. * If a socket location is declared in the config file it is NOT used. Attempts to start clamav-milter without a socket location declared on the command line will fail even though it is declared in the config file. * If a socket location is declared on the command line, clamav-milter will start as a daemon or from the command line. Deliberately creating a mismatch to the sendmail.cf socket location will cause clamav-milter to fail - as it should. Unfortunately, with no logging available it is difficult to provide any additional information for diagnosis. Also, without logging it is impossible to determine if the process actually does anything other than start. Email that has been processed does NOT have Xtag in header. Contacted clamav.net for resolution. Response: Perhaps you downloaded a ready built RPM? In which case please either contact the package maintainer (they don't contact us so we have no idea what they have done) or build a proper version from source from www.clamav.net.
Can not reproduce it. clamav-milter works here (nearly) out of the box. Just do an | # yum install clamav-milter | ... add the suggested line to sendmail.mc ... | ... remove the 'Example' from /etc/clamd.d/milter.conf ... | # chkconfig clamav-milter on | ... restart system ... The clamav-milter packages creates the /var/log/clamd.milter logfile with the appropriate rights in the %post scriptlet.
closing this bug because it works for me.
But did the config file do everything that it is intended to do? It does not appear that you tested IAW my bug report.
some parts of the config file (e.g. pidfile) are for interest only when milter is used in external mode. The socketfile MUST be given on the cmdline. The logfile works definitively (but is not very noisy). I do not know what you mean with "does NOT have Xtag in header". Such an "Xtag" header does not occur in clamav source.