clamav + amavisd startup

[bustthis]

hi,

i recently installed amavis and clamav with spamsssassin. i tried to get them to startup when postfix starts, but it’s not working at all.

here is what i added to /System/Library/StartupItems/Postfix/Postfix:

. /etc/rc.common

StartService ()
{
if [ “${MAILSERVER:=-NO-}” = “-YES-” ]; then
ConsoleMessage “Starting mail services”
/usr/bin/spamd -d -a
su clamav -c /usr/local/sbin/clamd
su clamav -c amavisd
/usr/sbin/postfix start
elif [ “${MAILSERVER:=-NO-}” = “-AUTOMATIC-” ]; then
/usr/sbin/postfix-watch
fi
}

StopService ()
{
ConsoleMessage “Stopping Postfix mail services”
/usr/sbin/postfix stop
killall -1 postfix-watch 2> /dev/null
}

RestartService ()
{
if [ “${MAILSERVER:=-NO-}” = “-YES-” ]; then
ConsoleMessage “Reloading Postfix configuration”
/usr/sbin/postfix reload
else
StopService
fi
}

RunService “$1”

i added the clam-update log to cron.

when i restart my server, i know it’s not running because all mail is refused and i need to start amavis manually each time in order to get mail.

also, can someone tell me what this means?

Apr 10 20:35:57 charles-x postfix/pipe[15746]: 99AE369531: to=<[email protected]>, relay=procmail, delay=8, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: procmail: Couldn’t read “/Users/virusalert/.procmailrc” procmail: Program failure (65) of “/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver” )

any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

Try this:
Create a directory in /Library/StartupItems – name it Amavis
Make sure permissions are correct.
Inside the Amavis directory, create a file: Amavis
Insert this into Amavis file:

#!/bin/sh

. /etc/rc.common

StartService ()
{
if [ “${Amavis:=-NO-}” = “-YES-” ]; then
ConsoleMessage “Starting Amavis”
su clamav -c amavisd
freshclam -d -c 2 -l /var/log/clam-update.log
fi
}

StopService ()
{
ConsoleMessage “Stopping Amavis”
}

RunService “$1”

Inside the Amavis directory, create a file: StartupParameters.plist
Insert this into StartupParameters.plist:

{
Description = “Whatever You Want It To Say”;
Provides = (“Amavis”);
Requires = (“Resolver”);
Preference = “None”;
Messages =
{
start = “Starting Amavis”;
stop = “Stopping Amavis”;
};
}

Ceate a line in /etc/hostconfg and add this to the bottom:

Amavis=-YES-

Hope this does it.

[Anonymous]

i got it to work before i got your post, pretty much exactly the same way… but i never added the line to etc/hostconfig – do i need that? it works without it and i guess it’s a stupid question 🙂

[Anonymous]

I used the second script, set up per suggestions…. and my amavisd *still* won’t start at startup. If I restart the mail server for any reason, I still have to launch amavisd manually via terminal.

Help???

[bustthis]

this is what works for me:

#!/bin/sh

. /etc/rc.common

StartService ()
{
ConsoleMessage “Starting Amavis anti-virus/spam daemon.”
if [ ! -d /var/run/clamav ] ; then
mkdir /var/run/clamav
fi
chown clamav /var/run/clamav
su clamav -c /usr/local/sbin/clamd
/usr/bin/su clamav -c amavisd
/usr/local/bin/freshclam -d -c 6 -l /var/log/clam-update.log
}

StopService ()
{
ConsoleMessage “Stopping Amavis anti-virus/spam daemon.”
kill -1 `cat /var/amavis/amavisd.pid`
killall freshclam
killall clamd
}

RestartService ()
{
StopService
StartService
}

RunService “$1”

StartupParameters.plist:

{
Description = “Amavis anti-virus/spam-control daemon”;
Provides = (“AV-Spam”);
Requires = (“Resolver”);
Uses = (“Network Time”, “NFS”);
Preference = “None”;
Messages =
{
start = “Starting Amavis”;
stop = “Stopping Amavis”;
restart = “Restarting Amavis”;
};
}

permissions:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 860 11 Jun 23:12 Amavis
-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 315 11 Jun 23:12 StartupParameters.plist

you might want to take out the clam lines.

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