[WBEL-users] SOLVED: sendmail milter struggles

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 17:19 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 00:07 +0100, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 January 2005 23:27, Craig White wrote:
> > 
> > > > problem still shows in /var/log/maillog
> > > > Jan 23 14:19:54 mail sendmail[17062]: j0NLJspM017062: Milter (clamav):
> > > > write(O) returned -1, expected 12: Broken pipe
> > > > Jan 23 14:19:54 mail sendmail[17062]: j0NLJspM017062: Milter (clamav):
> > > > to error state
> > > > Jan 23 14:19:54 mail sendmail[17062]: j0NLJspM017062: Milter (clamav):
> > > > init failed to open
> > > > Jan 23 14:19:54 mail sendmail[17062]: j0NLJspM017062: Milter (clamav):
> > > > to error state
> > > >
> > > > so I will switch back to tcp sockets to see if it works.
> > >
> > > ----
> > > same problem
> > 
> > Had the same thing... check the path listed in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf for the 
> > clamav socket. Also check the permissions of the socket file.
> > 
> > >From my sendmail.cf
> > Xclamav-milter, S=local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.sock, 
> > F=,T=S:4m;R:4m;E:10m
> > 
> > >From clamd.conf
> > PidFile /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid
> > 
> > In /var/run/clam[javanree at www clamav]$ ll
> > total 8
> > -rw-rw----    1 clamav   clamav          4 Jan 22 16:46 clamav-milter.pid
> > srwxr-xr-x    1 clamav   clamav          0 Jan 22 16:46 clamav-milter.sock
> > -rw-rw----    1 clamav   clamav          3 Jan 22 16:46 clamd.pid
> > 
> > My /etc/sysconfig/clamav-milter
> > 
> > CLAMAV_FLAGS="  --quiet \
> >                 --dont-wait \
> >                 --force-scan \
> >                 --dont-log-clean \
> >                 --server=localhost \
> >                 --pidfile=/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.pid \
> >                 local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.sock \
> >                 "
> ----
> one last question then...in your /etc/clamd.conf   are you also pointing
> it to /var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.sock ? or are you using TCP
> localhost:3310 ?
> 
> seems as though, when I 'service clamav-milter stop' it kills the .sock
> and clamd is effectively killed as well and must be restarted before I
> can start clamav-milter again. This is really clumsy
----
indeed that was the issue. sock configured in clamd.conf is different
from sock in clamav-milter & sendmail.mc

Damn - that sure turned out to be harder than it needed to be. I guess I
have learned though...

Craig