[clamav-users] Unable to run clamd in /opt/directory

[Dennis Peterson]

What do you get if you run sudo -u clam_user_name /usr/bin/clamconf -c /opt/ -n 
where clam-user-name is the name in the clamd.conf that you chose.

Please note the clamconf -c option takes a directory name, not a file name.

dp

On 11/6/15 2:53 AM, P K wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried both suggested and its working fine but unable to run clamd with
> /opt/clamd.conf.
>
> Even i tried running with root user and seeing error.
>
> opt directory is with 0777 permission.
>
> Strange behaviour.
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Deyan Chepishev <dchepishev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is probably caused by permissions of the /opt which do not allow the
>> user which clamd is running as, to access this directory.
>>
>> In such cases, you can try option:
>>
>> clamdscan --stream
>>
>> In this case, if the user executing clamdscan has permissions over the
>> directory, clamdscan reads the files and streams them to clamd using the
>> clamd socket.
>> If you do not use this option, behavior is selected automatically, which
>> for scans where clamd and clamdscan are started on the same machine, is
>> clamd to try to directly scan the directory, which causes troubles if his
>> user do not have permissions to traverse the directory/files.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Deyan
>>
>>
>>
>> Dennis Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> What are the directory permissions/extended permissions for /opt?
>>>
>>> Did you try sudo -u clamdUserName cat /opt/clamd.conf to see if the clamd
>>> user
>>> has permission to access the file?
>>>
>>> dp
>>>
>>> On 11/4/15 6:15 AM, P K wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>
>>>> I am seeing config file parse error when using config file inside /opt/
>>>> directory.
>>>>
>>>> Curious why unable to run clamd config in /opt directory.   In other
>>>> system
>>>> with 0.98.6  its working fine.
>>>>
>>>> Below are output:
>>>>
>>>> sudo /usr/sbin/clamd --version -c ./clamd.conf
>>>> ClamAV 0.98.7
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pk at pk-x:~$ ls -ltr /opt/clamd.conf
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1981 Nov  4 19:07 /opt/clamd.conf
>>>>
>>>> pk at pk-x:~$ ls -ltr ./clamd.conf
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1981 Nov  4 19:07 ./clamd.conf
>>>>
>>>> pk at pk-x:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/clamd -c /opt/clamd.conf
>>>> *ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /opt/clamd.conf*
>>>>
>>>> pk at pk-x:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/clamd -c ./clamd.conf
>>>> Limits: Global size limit set to 104857600 bytes.
>>>> Limits: File size limit set to 26214400 bytes.
>>>> Limits: Recursion level limit set to 10.
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