[Bug 430429] [NEW] socket file location doesn't support chroot'd postfix smtpd, which is default

[Stephen Warren]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: clamav

A default postfix install, at least on Jaunty, runs smtpd chroot'd.

/etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf contains this by default:

MilterSocket /var/run/clamav/milter.ctl

Which is fine for non-chroot'd smtpd, but doesn't work for chroot'd
smtpd.

To solve this for the spamassassin milter, I did something like:

mkdir -p /var/spool/postfix/var/spool/postfix/spamass
ln /var/spool/postfix/spamass/spamass.sock spamass.sock

However, a similar workaround doesn't work for clamav-milter, because
the clamav socket is /var/run/clamav/milter.ctl, and /var/run is mounted
on tmpfs, whereas /var/spool/postfix/ is part of /, and hard-links can't
be made across filesystems,

Instead, I added this to fstab:

/var/run/clamav /var/spool/postfix/var/run/clamav              none bind
0 0

It'd be nice if the clamav-milter package automated this fstab entry, or
provided some other automatic/default solution (or perhaps moved the
socket into /var/spool/postfix under some conditions, perhaps set by a
default-enabled option in clamav-milter.conf), so that clamav-milter
"just worked" out-of-the-box with default postfix configuration.

** Affects: clamav (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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socket file location doesn't support chroot'd postfix smtpd, which is default
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