clamav uid and gid

[Miles]

I am just working through the howto for installing spamassassin and clamav on Panther server. Is there any particular reason that clamav is given uid 26 and gid 26? these ids are already assigned on my machine: uid 26 = Printing Services, gid 26 = lp

Do the uid and gid absolutely have to be the same?

Should I not be using ids greater than 500?

Thanks,

Miles

[Miles]

I created a new user and group for clamav and that part seems to be all OK. There does seem to be a small glitch in my install though – I was using dun.dnsrbl.net to filter emails, but now when I try to send an email, that filter catches it saying that 127.0.0.1 is on the list of filtered IPs. I’m not sure if it was somthing that I specified in postfix/master.cf or main.cf or if it was something that came up in the Perl modules install.

The easiest fix is to take off the dun.dnsrbl.net filter (I still use spam.dnsrbl.net) but I would rather have more than less filtering, Any ideas where to start looking for the problem?

The other thing that I haven’t done is to create a startup item for amavisd and freshclam; any quick pointers on how/where to do that?

Thanks,

Miles

[Miles]

The rbl filter was set in the Server Admin app. I have disabled the dun.dnsrbl.net filter so that I can send mail again. I think I have to take another look at the amavisd.conf file again to make sure that everything is hunky dory.

Its only 1400 lines long, I couldn’t have possibly missed anything…

😉

Miles

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