[clamav-users] Trying to use daemon service to scan on demand with php

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, Paul Claridge wrote:

> My current project is a web service on Ubuntu LAMP (20.02LTS).
>
> I have installed the clamav-daemon package successfully.
>
> My php scripts run as www-data:www-data and I have changed the user and group 
> in /etc/clamav/clamd.conf to www-data:www-data so that the php library I 
> found can access the socket and scan files when I want to. I had to chown 
> both the socket and log directories to get the daemon the start.

Are you using
         clamdscan --fdpass
or are you trying to access the socket via php ?

With the --fdpass option, the Ubuntu defaults should be all you need.

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Andrew C. Aitchison					Kendal, UK
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