Re: [Clamav-devel] clamdscan problems (misunderstanding?)

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Author: Rick Macdougall
Date:  
To: ClamAV Development
Subject: Re: [Clamav-devel] clamdscan problems (misunderstanding?)
Andy Ruddock wrote:
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> I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 and have clamav installed from the
> repositories.
> I've compiled a "hello world" program with permissions 0777
> the command
> clamdscan hello
> returns
> /hello: Access denied. ERROR
>
> I don't understand why this is so, where do the permissions required to
> scan this file fail?
>
> BTW running "clamdscan - </hello" works fine, and even changing the
> ownership on the file to clamav:clamav fails.
>


Perhaps it is in a directory that the clamav user does not have access too ?

Try copying the file to /tmp and trying it there.

Regards,

Rick

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