I installed qmail-scanner, but I get the dreaded write permission denied error: ian@dark-lord ian $ qmail-scanner-queue -g perlscanner: generate new DB file from /var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine-attachments.txt X-Qmail-Scanner-1.23st:[] cannot open for write /var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine-attachments.db.tmp - Permission denied I have googled the permission issue and from what I have been able to find, the permissions that I have look to be correct: ian@dark-lord ian $ ls /var/spool -al total 28 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Aug 23 08:33 . drwxr-xr-x 16 ian users 4096 Aug 23 08:33 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 30 15:02 .keep drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 Sep 30 2003 cron drwx------ 3 lp lp 4096 Oct 11 09:14 cups drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 3 2002 locate drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 4096 Aug 23 08:33 mail drwxr-xr-x 6 qmailq qmail 4096 Oct 31 03:40 qmailscan ian@dark-lord ian $ ls /var/spool/qmailscan -al total 52 drwxr-xr-x 6 qmailq qmail 4096 Oct 31 03:40 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Aug 23 08:33 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 29 12:53 .keep drwxr-x--- 5 qscand qscand 4096 Oct 29 12:53 archive -rw------- 1 qscand qscand 321 Oct 31 02:10 qmail-queue.log.1 -rw------- 1 qscand qscand 40 Oct 31 02:10 qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt drwxr-xr-x 5 qscand qscand 4096 Oct 29 12:53 quarantine -rw-r----- 1 qscand qscand 12288 Sep 14 11:50 quarantine-attachments.db -rw-r--r-- 1 qscand qscand 7414 Oct 29 12:53 quarantine-attachments.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 qscand qscand 0 Oct 29 12:53 quarantine.log drwxr-x--- 3 qscand qscand 4096 Oct 30 02:10 tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 qscand qscand 14 Oct 29 12:53 viruses.log -> quarantine.log drwxr-x--- 5 qscand qscand 4096 Oct 29 12:53 working BTW, I had to chown some of the files manually to get the qscand ownership. However, it still persists in giving me the write permission denied error. So, I am at a loss to see what the problem is. I don't know if this is a program error, an ebuild error, my error or something else, all I know is that it isn't working and is immensely frustrating :( Any help would be appreciated. Interestingly, when I printed out the emerge info for below, I got the following: Failed to write to mtimedb: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/mtimedb' What the heck is going on here? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.27-grsec-2.0.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.27-grsec-2.0.1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks emergemail fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://dark-lord.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acpi alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups encode esd f77 foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype virus-scan x86 xml xml2 xprint xv zlib linguas_en"
I think you have the wrong permissions for /var/spool/qmailscan drwxr-xr-x 6 qmailq qmail 4096 Oct 31 03:40 qmailscan Should be drwxr-xr-x 6 qscand qscand 4096 Oct 31 03:40 qmailscan $chown qscand:qscand /var/spool/qmailscan will fix the problem
Still problematic?? I think Matt solved the issue. But I'm not closing till I get a confirmation or 3 days later, whichever comes earlier. Regards Lim Swee Tat
Ian or Matt, is this still a problem in mail-filter/qmail-scanner-1.25-r1?
I have clamav-0.88 and mail-filter/qmail-scanner-1.25-r1 installed today. This is what I have (after editing /etc/clamd.conf to run as user qscand instead of clamav which is described in other bugs in bugzilla): # ls /var/spool/qmailscan -al total 36 drwxr-xr-x 6 qscand root 4096 Feb 6 20:46 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 94 Feb 6 11:48 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 20:18 .keep drwxr-x--- 5 qscand qscand 36 Feb 6 11:48 archive -rw------- 1 qscand nofiles 396 Feb 6 20:29 mailstats.csv -rw------- 1 qscand qscand 2991 Feb 6 20:29 qmail-queue.log -rw------- 1 qscand root 40 Feb 6 20:18 qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt drwxr-x--- 5 qscand qscand 36 Feb 6 11:48 quarantine -rw-r----- 1 qscand root 12288 Feb 6 20:46 quarantine-attachments.db -rw-r--r-- 1 qscand qscand 7414 Feb 6 20:18 quarantine-attachments.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 qscand qscand 0 Feb 6 20:18 quarantine.log drwxr-x--- 2 qscand qscand 18 Feb 6 20:29 tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 6 20:18 viruses.log -> quarantine.log drwxr-x--- 5 qscand qscand 36 Feb 6 11:48 working # # qmail-scanner-queue -g perlscanner: generate new DB file from /var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine-attachments.txt perlscanner: total of 81 entries. #
I'm having the same problem. I have qmail-scanner-1.25-r1 installed. I get this in the qmail-smtp log: @4000000043ea76521d2795bc X-Qmail-Scanner-1.25st:[nisse113943917671831689] cannot open /var/spool/qmailscan/qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt - did you initialise the system by running "qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z"? - Permission denied # ls -la /var/spool/qmailscan drwxrwsr-x 7 qscand qscand 4096 Feb 8 22:57 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Dec 14 20:27 .. drwxrws--- 5 qscand qscand 4096 Dec 9 16:42 archive -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 3359 Feb 8 22:58 qmail-queue.log -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 473 Feb 5 03:10 qmail-queue.log.1.gz -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 467 Jan 29 03:01 qmail-queue.log.2.gz -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 479 Jan 22 03:11 qmail-queue.log.3.gz -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 472 Jan 15 03:10 qmail-queue.log.4.gz -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 42 Feb 8 22:37 qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt drwxrws--- 5 qscand qscand 4096 Dec 9 16:42 quarantine -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 12288 Feb 8 22:41 quarantine-attachments.db -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 7414 Dec 9 16:42 quarantine-attachments.txt -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 0 Feb 5 03:10 quarantine.log -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 20 Feb 5 03:10 quarantine.log.1.gz -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 20 Jan 29 03:01 quarantine.log.2.gz -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 20 Jan 22 03:11 quarantine.log.3.gz -rwxrwx--- 1 qscand qscand 20 Jan 15 03:10 quarantine.log.4.gz drwxrws--- 5 qscand qscand 4096 Dec 9 16:42 spam drwxrws--- 5 qscand qscand 4096 Feb 8 22:58 tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 qscand qscand 14 Dec 10 23:35 viruses.log -> quarantine.log drwxrws--- 5 qscand qscand 4096 Dec 9 16:42 working # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-hardened-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-hardened-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aim aliaschain alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 clamav crypt cups curl dlloader eds emboss encode expat fam foomaticdb fortran ftp fwdzone gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hardened hardenedphp iconv icq idn imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 jabber java javascript jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mhash mikmod mime mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn multipleip mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl perlsuid php pic png python qmail qt quicktime readline samba sdl semanticfix spamassassin spell ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userlocales vhosts virus-scan vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Hi everyone. I solved the problem by doing this: you need to edit your /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-smtp to say QMAILQUE=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue and not QMAILQUE=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl That is, drop the .pl stuff at the end. This does something to the setuid perl module. Dont know what though. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml for a howto.
(In reply to comment #6) > Hi everyone. I solved the problem by doing this: > you need to edit your /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-smtp to say > QMAILQUE=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue > and not > QMAILQUE=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > That is, drop the .pl stuff at the end. This does something to the setuid perl > module. Dont know what though. > > See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml for a howto. This is documented in the elog message from the qmail-scanner ebuild in the meantime. AFAICS also the permissions are set up correctly now. So, can this be closed?
same happened to me today for a different reason. when it ran qmail-scanner-queue -g it bailed with an error: perlscanner: generate new DB file from /var/spool/qscan/quarantine-events.txt X-Qmail-Scanner-2.01st:[] cannot read /var/spool/qscan/quarantine-events.txt - No such file or directory this was easily solved by just 'touch'-ing that file and running it manually. that also created a 0 byte db file which then in return later gave a 'bad file descriptor' message in qmail logs. i'll elaborate later after reading more bugs (it's 00:50 here ;))
*** Bug 99511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is this still valid with 2.08?
