Amavisd-new and clamav user/group permissions conflictions?

[Haulmark, Chris]

I installed security/amavisd-new (2.1.2,1) and chose security/clamav (0.80.r4)
as my antivirus solution.

In the /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf, it had clamav as the default user for clamd
to be running under.  /usr/local/etc/amavisd.conf shows vscan as the default
user.

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%ls -alh /var/amavis/
total 12
drwxr-x---   5 vscan  vscan  512B Oct 16 15:23 .
drwxr-xr-x  24 root   wheel  512B Oct 16 14:02 ..
drwx------   2 vscan  vscan  512B Oct 16 16:10 .spamassassin
-rw-r-----   1 vscan  vscan   0B Oct 16 16:10 amavisd-24661.lock
-rw-r-----   1 vscan  vscan   6B Oct 16 15:23 amavisd.pid
drwxr-x---   2 vscan  vscan  512B Oct 16 15:23 db
drwxr-x---   4 vscan  vscan  512B Oct 16 16:10 tmp
%
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%ls -alh /var/run | grep clamav
drwxr-xr-x   2 clamav  clamav    512B Oct 16 16:09 clamav
%

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%ps -aux | grep clamd
clamav    24914  0.0  1.2  6808 6348  ??  Ss    4:29PM   0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/clamd

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%ps -aux | grep amavisd
vscan     24664  0.0  6.2 33856 32128  ??  I     3:23PM   0:00.50 amavisd (ch2-avail) (perl)
vscan     24663  0.0  6.2 34012 32192  ??  I     3:23PM   0:00.86 amavisd (ch2-avail) (perl)
vscan     24662  0.0  6.2 32952 31852  ??  Ss    3:23PM   0:01.19 amavisd (master) (perl)

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%cat /var/log/maillog | grep ClamAV | grep denied
Oct 16 16:02:03 xxxxxxxx amavis[24664]: (24664-02) ask_av (ClamAV-clamd) FAILED - unexpected result: /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20041016T160203-24664/parts: Access denied. ERROR\n
%

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I could solve this by changing the default user of clamd.conf to vscan then change the
ownership of /var/run/clamav/ to vscan.

I am still not sure if this is by design or actual a confliction and if I should submit
a fix for the first time myself.
  
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Chris Haulmark
System Admin. Freelancer
"In market for IT corrections for a salary."