Mail Filtering tutorial doesn't result in correct group memberships to allow ClamAV to scan messages

[Aaron]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/mail-filtering.html

The line 'sudo adduser amavis clamav' results in the following entries in /etc/group:-

clamav:x:127:amavis
amavis:x:128:

I had to follow the information at 'http://wiki.clamav.net/bin/view/Main/AmavisdNew' to fix a 'Clam Antivirus-clamd FAILED - unknown status' error that was occuring in /var/log/mail.log. My resulting entries in /etc/group are now:-

clamav:x:127:amavis
amavis:x:128:clamav

With this change Clam immediately sprung to life (After restart of the service) and started scanning messages OK.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

The Ubuntu Documentation team has moved the serverguide out of the ubuntu-docs package, it is now under the serverguide project. Moving this bug accordingly.

I'm keeping this open under ubuntu-docs as I think it is a good candidate for a SRU in the future.

[Joker Wild (lajjr-deactivatedaccount)]

I found this to be valid and because it doesn't add user to the last group.

ex: clamav:x:127:amavis
amavis:x:128:
with only this command:
sudo adduser clamav amavi

To fix we need to do:
sudo adduser amavis clamav

after this it shows this:
clamav:x:127:amavis
amavis:x:128:clamav

Regards,
Leo Jackson

[Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10)]

Has anyone tested this to see whether the instructions being applied to the server are applicable to the regular distro as well? I think they will work just fine so if the fix has been committed to serverguide, we can probably port it.