Topic: Server Manager - Internal server error

[kangkc]

Nope. It's not caused by another cron job, neither it's due to old/slow machine.

Just run /etc/clamscan manually and you will see the permission changed.

Interesting thing is I have another test server which has the same rpms installed and do not encounter the problem.

[wyron]

I understand my total breakdown last week a little better now, I think.
After my restore to a separate library on a fresh install, I find numerous files (mostly from ibays) with changed permissions and ownerships, all totally out of sync with what they should have been.
Symptomatic, if Clamscan really operates the way indicated in this thread.
Regarding the countless hours I spent rebuilding a working server I shall NOT be installing clam again until this issue is resolved one way or the other!

[mbachmann]

I really feel sorry that you were finally able to break something, wyron. Rebuilding a server is not that much fun.

[wyron]

I really feel sorry that you were finally able to break something, wyron. Rebuilding a server is not that much fun.

Not just something - everything at once. But thanks for your sympathy, mb !
And no, it's not much fun, but you learn new things along the way. Without the abundant supply of howtos and pointers in bugthreads and other (sometimes obscure) places, I don't know if I'd ever have gotten it off the ground again, though.
As of now, the only things I haven't succeded in getting back to order, are the user address databases in the horde/imp infrastructure.
Perhaps you have a hint for me there ?
Funny (peculiar, not ha-ha) that it's so easy to build a new server, and so difficult to restore one.
But that's SME for you !

[mbachmann]

Unfortunately no hint in in rebuilding user adresses.

What happend? All CLAM AV's fault by changing permissions?

Useful command would have been: restore default permissions which is present on Windows Servers.

[wyron]

What happend? All CLAM AV's fault by changing permissions?

I simply don't know, but the info in this thread, combined with what I find in ibays of files having ownerships relating to other ibays and not their own,
etc., etc., I suspect it rather strongly !

Useful command would have been: restore default permissions which is present on Windows Servers.

Yeah, I know what you mean, but thats not our world.

[bobk]

This problem (clamav changing permissions) seems to be sporadic and cannot duplicated on all installations.

Example: I have multiple SME servers (both 5.6 & 6.0.1-01) all running clamav (from pagefault). All of then use cron to run clamscan daily. None of them exhibit this changing of permissions problem.

I suggest that everyone having this problem start looking at what other contribs they have installed and a possible conflict. I do not use Spamassassin but it seems like most people having the problem do. So Spamassassin might be a good place to start looking.

[wyron]

Ray might have a point. Try reading the last part of this thread:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=21802.0
How about it ?
Is our hardware really overmatched?
I should like everybody with these or related malfunctions to compare hardware setup.
As for me, I'm running an Asus P2B-ls board with a 400Mhz PII and 512 Mb RAM.
I seldom see the processor charged above 25% of its potential, but on the other hand I see my RAM being utilized to the hilt, especially at backup-time, when somebody is downloading from my contribs 'mirror' simultaneously.
And for reasons explained I am running only core applications just now.

[ltc6netspec]

I disagree about older PC.  I have two PIII - 1Ghz w/ 512MB RAM, dual 40GB harddrives PCs.  One is working fine and the other is having the same problem.  I think the program sequence of the install is the issue.  I tried to remmeber the squence for the second PC, but next week will be my 7th install of it.