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Author:  papafox [ 12 Mar 2008 06:21 ]
Post subject:  ClamAV: Unable to create temporary directory

I'm running privoxy->havp with clamav. I'm getting an error message "ClamAV: Unable to create temporary directory", which I can't find the cause of.

The havp.config has

TEMPDIR /tmp

and the /tmp directory is world writeable. clamd.conf has

TemporaryDirectory /tmp

so I don't think its a clamav problem either.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this problem?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Author:  Severus [ 13 Mar 2008 16:21 ]
Post subject: 

Hi papafox,
check your clamd.conf if there is set a special tmp-folder and if so check the rights of clamav on this folder.
regards Severus

Author:  men7763 [ 13 Mar 2008 18:55 ]
Post subject: 

The problem depends on the library libclamav3.

Solution:

Depending on how it was compiled:

run :

ln -s libclamav.so.2.0.8 libclamav.so.2
or
ln -s libclamav.so.2.0.8 libclamav.so.3




restart havp
restart squid (if used)

hi

Author:  Severus [ 13 Mar 2008 21:37 ]
Post subject: 

Hi men7763,
Quote:
The problem depends on the library libclamav3.


May be I'm wrong but I don't think so. If not able to connect to the clamav libraries havp should not start at all. I use havp with the copfilter addon of ipcop and there havp broke with an error message when there was no symlink to the current libclamav.

regards Severus

Author:  Hugoo [ 26 Mar 2008 10:16 ]
Post subject:  Same problem

Hello,
I have same problem " SCANERROR ClamAV: Unable to create temporary directory".

- Havp 0.87 and clamav 0.92.1.

- I using "ln -s libclamav.so.3.0.4 libclamav.so.3" , but error messages display 10x daily.

- clamd.conf configure "TemporaryDirectory /var/tmp/clamav"
havp configure "SCANTEMPFILE /var/tmp/havp/havp-XXXXXX"
and "TEMPDIR /var/tmp/havpclam"

- Temp directory have owner rights: var/tmp/*****
drwxrwxr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Mar 25 14:17 clamav/
drwxrwxrwx 2 havp havp 4096 Mar 26 08:14 havpclam/
drwxrwxrwx 3 havp havp 4096 Mar 26 08:14 havp/


Please help

Author:  Hugoo [ 27 Mar 2008 17:48 ]
Post subject:  ERROR

Hello,
problem is solved.I using clamd demon for HAVP in havp.conf :-)).

Author:  hege [ 01 Apr 2008 17:50 ]
Post subject: 

I think the bug is because ClamAV doesn't generate random enough directory names. It fails when there is a temporary directory with the same name already and doesn't try again.

Author:  hege [ 01 Apr 2008 22:50 ]
Post subject: 

My bad.. there was a bug in HAVP, random seed wasn't initialized after forking, so all clamav processes had the same. Resulting in some duplicate temporary names.

Please try this new test version:

http://havp.hege.li/download/havp-0.88pre2.tar.gz

Author:  krull [ 08 Jul 2008 10:07 ]
Post subject:  Re: ClamAV: Unable to create temporary directory

i have the same error with havp 0.88 and clamav 0.93.1 on debian gnu/linux 4.0

Author:  dspiteri [ 18 Sep 2008 10:25 ]
Post subject:  Re: ClamAV: Unable to create temporary directory

Hi Hege, I started getting this problem at 0.87. I'm currently at 0.89 with Clam 0.93.3 on Solaris 10 and still have this popping up in the logs. Any ideas?

Author:  hege [ 18 Sep 2008 11:47 ]
Post subject:  Re: ClamAV: Unable to create temporary directory

Try ClamAV 0.94. I haven't seen any errors myself since that.

Author:  badm4n [ 09 Dec 2008 07:35 ]
Post subject:  Re: ClamAV: Unable to create temporary directory

hege wrote:
Try ClamAV 0.94. I haven't seen any errors myself since that.


09/12/2008 11:11:21 192.168.77.83 GET 404 http://mail.google.com/mail/photos/ilha ... 0yahoo.com? 464+124 SCANERROR ClamAV: Unable to create temporary directory


i have that problem
:(

i use UBUNTU HH
install havp from
# apt-get install havp


solution pls

Author:  karesmakro [ 09 Dec 2008 10:09 ]
Post subject:  Re: ClamAV: Unable to create temporary directory

One question: are you running havp over virus database from clamav?
If so, try following: run havp and clamav with the same user and group and don't forget to change the ownership of the directories!

It's only a guess. Another way to try is, to run havp over socket of clamav.

@bad4m are your problems solved with squid configuration?

Author:  badm4n [ 09 Dec 2008 10:15 ]
Post subject:  Re: ClamAV: Unable to create temporary directory

karesmakro wrote:
One question: are you running havp over virus database from clamav?
If so, try following: run havp and clamav with the same user and group and don't forget to change the ownership of the directories!

It's only a guess. Another way to try is, to run havp over socket of clamav.

@bad4m are your problems solved with squid configuration?



It solved now
i upgrade my HH to interpid
and this is what i have
root@castor:/home/mirza/web# havp --help

Usage: havp [Options]

HAVP Version 0.89
===============

for now i dont see that msg anymore
( hope this not temporary )

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