Did I Install Too Much For Clamav?

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I just checked the status of amavisd:

# systemctl -l status amavisd
● amavisd.service – Amavisd-new is an interface between MTA and content checkers.
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/amavisd.service; enabled;
vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-02-07 08:16:59 EST; 7h ago
     Docs: http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/#doc
  Process: 5715 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/amavisd -c
/etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 6327 (/usr/sbin/amavi)
   CGroup: /system.slice/amavisd.service
           ├─6327 /usr/sbin/amavisd (master)
           ├─6336 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
           └─6337 /usr/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)

Feb 07 08:16:59 klovia.htt-consult.com amavis[6327]: Found decoder for    .lha  at /usr/bin/7z Feb 07 08:16:59 klovia.htt-consult.com amavis[6327]: Found decoder for    .iso  at /usr/bin/7z Feb 07 08:16:59 klovia.htt-consult.com amavis[6327]: Found decoder for    .exe  at /usr/bin/unarj Feb 07 08:16:59 klovia.htt-consult.com amavis[6327]: Using primary internal av scanner code for ClamAV-clamd Feb 07 08:16:59 klovia.htt-consult.com amavis[6327]: Found secondary av scanner ClamAV-clamscan at /usr/bin/clamscan Feb 07 08:16:59 klovia.htt-consult.com amavis[6327]: Deleting db files
__db.002,snmp.db,nanny.db,__db.001,__db.003 in /var/spool/amavisd/db Feb 07 08:16:59 klovia.htt-consult.com amavis[6327]: Creating db in
/var/spool/amavisd/db/; BerkeleyDB 0.51, libdb 5.3
Feb 07 08:17:00 klovia.htt-consult.com amavis[6327]: initializing Mail::SpamAssassin (0)
Feb 07 08:17:08 klovia.htt-consult.com amavis[6327]: SpamControl:
init_pre_fork on SpamAssassin done Feb 07 08:17:08 klovia.htt-consult.com amavis[6327]: extra modules loaded after daemonizing/chrooting:
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/autosplit.ix,
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/randomize.al,
/usr/share/perl5/Net/libnet.cfg, IO/Socket/SSL.pm, Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/FreeMail.pm, Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/SpamCop.pm, Net/Cmd.pm, Net/Config.pm, Net/SMTP.pm, Net/SSLeay.pm

Primary and secondary AV scanner?  Is this right?  I installed:

# grep clam /var/log/yum.log*
/var/log/yum.log:Feb 06 08:40:06 Installed:
clamav-filesystem-0.101.1-1.el7.noarch
/var/log/yum.log:Feb 06 08:40:29 Installed: clamav-lib-0.101.1-1.el7.armv7hl
/var/log/yum.log:Feb 06 08:40:30 Installed:
clamav-update-0.101.1-1.el7.armv7hl
/var/log/yum.log:Feb 06 08:40:59 Installed:
clamav-devel-0.101.1-1.el7.armv7hl
/var/log/yum.log:Feb 06 08:41:01 Installed: clamav-0.101.1-1.el7.armv7hl
/var/log/yum.log:Feb 06 08:46:16 Installed: clamd-0.101.1-1.el7.armv7hl
/var/log/yum.log:Feb 06 08:46:17 Installed:
clamav-server-systemd-0.101.1-1.el7.armv7hl

thanks

2 thoughts on - Did I Install Too Much For Clamav?

  • I don’t use amavis, but it doesn’t seem surprising that it would search the system for supported components and find both clamd and clamscan. 
    It looks like secondary scanners are only used if the primary scanners fail, so this seems like it’s working normally.

  • Since I posted this, help on the postfix list resolved the problem. This was a red herring, as they say.

    thanks