[clamassassin-discuss] Fw: Internal error

[James Lick]

lnx wrote:

> I've just installed Clamassassin and an error message is appearing in 
> the header, details below.
>  
> X-Virus-Status: Failed
> X-Virus-Report: Internal error mktemp MSGTMP failed
> X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.1 with clamdscan / ClamAV 
> version 0.75.1 signatures 24.457
> Status:  
>  
> The problem is that the script could not create tempfiles.  How do I 
> correct this?

Is the temporary directory writable by the user your mail delivery agent 
runs as (or writable by everyone)?  Is your mktemp installation actually 
working?  Have you tried configuring a different temporary directory? 
 From the README on setting the temporary directory:

> clamassassin uses a temporary directory to store some files during processing.
> Normally this is the /tmp directory, and in most cases this is the optimal
> choice.  In some cases you may choose to change this for various reasons.  To
> do so, set the TMP environment variable to the directory you wish to use.
> This directory will need to be writable by whichever user the script is run
> as.

This needs to be set before configure is run.  If you are still having 
problems, please post the output of ./configure and the permissions of 
the temporary directory being used.

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