CentOS 7.2.1511 With Sendmail And A Problem With Clamav

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Everyone,

I am putting together a new CentOS 7 mail server for our organization and am having some difficulty getting clamav to work with the clamav-
milter for sendmail.

I have set /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf to use clamscan as the user as well as root as the user and the status command of systemctl results in the same error messages :

● clamd@scan.service – Generic clamav scanner daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamd@scan.service; enabled;
vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Thu 2016-09-29 17:53:11
CDT; 1min 38s ago
  Process: 1891 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/clamd -c /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf —
foreground=yes (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 1891 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: Unit clamd@scan.service entered failed state. Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service failed. Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for clamd@scan.service Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Generic clamav scanner daemon. Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: Unit clamd@scan.service entered failed state. Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service failed.

I have tried running :
/usr/sbin/clamd -c /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf –foreground=yes

with the foreground set to yes and no and with the user set in scan.conf as clamscan or root and it works fine.

I have not been able to figure out what is happening with the command :

systemctl start clamd@scan 

The same error messages occur at boot with this command as well as on the command line.

Do any of you have suggestions.

Thanks much,

Greg Ennis

4 thoughts on - CentOS 7.2.1511 With Sendmail And A Problem With Clamav

  • Everyone,

    I am putting together a new CentOS 7 mail server for our organization and am having some difficulty getting clamav to work with the clamav-
    milter for sendmail.

    I have set /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf to use clamscan as the user as well as root as the user and the status command of systemctl results in the same error messages :

    clamd@scan.service – Generic clamav scanner daemon
       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamd@scan.service; enabled;
    vendor preset: disabled)
       Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Thu 2016-09-29 17:53:11
    CDT; 1min 38s ago
      Process: 1891 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/clamd -c /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf —
    foreground=yes (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
     Main PID: 1891 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

    Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: Unit clamd@scan.service entered failed state. Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service failed. Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for clamd@scan.service Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Generic clamav scanner daemon. Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: Unit clamd@scan.service entered failed state. Sep 29 17:53:11 IrGw3.EcCare.com systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service failed.

    I have tried running :
    /usr/sbin/clamd -c /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf –foreground=yes

    with the foreground set to yes and no and with the user set in scan.conf as clamscan or root and it works fine.

    I have not been able to figure out what is happening with the command :

    systemctl start clamd@scan 

    The same error messages occur at boot with this command as well as on the command line.

    Do any of you have suggestions.

    Thanks much,

    Greg Ennis
    ———————————————————————–

    I think I have found the problem, but would still like some suggestions.

    I had set the log file in scan.conf to be /var/log/clamd.scan having the user and group name of clamscan and protections of -rw-rw-rw-

    When I removed the log file entry line item in scan.conf everything worked properly.  Only problem is that all the clamd log entries are going in the message file.

    If anyone has other suggestions I would appreciate it.

    Thanks,

    Greg Ennis

  • Hi, is SELInux enabled? if so set it to permissive and see if you can specify the logging as you wish If this works you should be able to work out the Local SELinux policy that you need and then revert back to using enforcing.

  • I don’t use ClamAV, but I’ll bet it runs as a non-root user. In CentOS 7, only root can write to /var/log.

    You should create a clamav directory under /var/log and give the ClamAV user write access to it, then configure ClamAV to write its logs there.

    That, or switch to syslog or similar, if ClamAV allows it.

  • I don’t use ClamAV, but I’ll bet it runs as a non-root user.  In CentOS
    7, only root can write to /var/log.

    You should create a clamav directory under /var/log and give the ClamAV
    user write access to it, then configure ClamAV to write its logs there.

    That, or switch to syslog or similar, if ClamAV allows it.

    —————————————————-

    Waren,

    That solved the problem, I created a subdirectory in /var/log as clamd and changed /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf.

    I was not aware that only root can write to /var/log

    Thanks again!!!

    Greg