From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 09:43:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242EF16A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:43:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.thilelli.net (jgabel.net1.nerim.net [80.65.226.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A71343D2D for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:43:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEBF78C46 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:43:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from bento.thilelli.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bento.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13531-02-6 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:43:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AED078C43 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:43:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from 194.119.92.65 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:43:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <33277.194.119.92.65.1078854180.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <1078850039.9307.25.camel@columbus> References: <1078850039.9307.25.camel@columbus> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:43:00 +0100 (CET) From: "Julien Gabel" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thilelli.net Subject: Re: Amavisd/ClamAV X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:43:05 -0000 > I am running Postfix 2.0.16 on FreeBSD 5.2.1 and used the FreeBSD port > collection to install amavisd-new. I have this entry recurring in my > amavisd log: > > WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups > > I looked on the clamav web site and found this statement: > > clamscan is enabled automatically if clamscan binary is found at > amavisd-new starup time. clamd is activated by uncommenting its entry > in the @av_scanners list, file /etc/amavisd.conf. > > I see in my amavisd.conf file that the 'Clam Antivirus-clamd' entry > under @av_scanners is commented out, should it not be? > > clamscan is what amavisd is resorting to after the Warning, is this a > bad thing? I also found searching the web that something may not be > configured correctly. That seeing this waring means clamav is not > running optimally. Can anyone offer any guidance? Ok, amavid-new is possibly configured to use clamav... but is the security/clamav installed on your system? -- -jpeg.