Hi all,

For some reason, clamdscan is returning a permissions error for files it has read access to.

I've copied some output below to help show the situation...

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root@arquivos0:/var/www# grep User /etc/clamav/clamd.conf
User clamav

root@arquivos0:/var/www# grep clamav /etc/group
www-data:x:33:clamav
clamav:x:121:

root@arquivos0:/var/www# ls -ld nc_data/
drwxrwx--- 59 www-data www-data 4096 Out 22 08:40 nc_data/

root@arquivos0:/var/www# clamdscan -v --config-file=/etc/clamav/clamd.conf nc_data/
/var/www/nc_data: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Infected files: 0
Total errors: 1
Time: 0.000 sec (0 m 0 s)

root@arquivos0:/var/www# sudo -u clamav ls nc_data/

[correct directory contents listed]

root@arquivos0:/var/www# ls -al /var/log/clamav/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav    45 Out 30 12:29 .
drwxrwxr-x 16 root   syslog 4096 Out 30 15:41 ..
-rw-r----- 1 clamav adm    10914 Out 30 17:12 clamav.log
-rw-r----- 1 clamav adm     2352 Out 30 15:17 freshclam.log

root@arquivos0:/var/www# clamdscan -v --config-file=/etc/clamav/clamd.conf /var/log/clamav/
/var/log/clamav: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Infected files: 0
Total errors: 1
Time: 0.000 sec (0 m 0 s)
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To quote Aristotle, "WTF?"

Any help appreciated!

Doug