clamav spamassassin with simscan @ debian

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by Shamael Anwar, Nov 22, 2006.

  1. Shamael Anwar

    Shamael Anwar New Member

    The title says it all. Long waiting simscan setup procedure at debian box:

    Assumed u v already setup qmail and apllied the qmailqueue patch then go directly to download package section:

    If you didnt follow qmailrocks then follow the below procedure:

    I get lots of complain from users who didnt apply the qmailqueue patch. So i m including the qmailqueue patch installation here:

    cd /usr/local/src

    wget http://www.qmailrocks.org/downloads/patches/qmailqueue.patch

    cd /path/to/qmail-1.03

    patch < /usr/local/src/qmailqueue.patch

    qmailctl stop

    make && make man && make setup check

    qmailctl start

    Download requared packages:

    wget http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/clamav/clamav-0.88.6.tar.gz

    wget http://www.inter7.com/simscan/simscan-1.2.tar.gz

    wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pcre/pcre-6.3.tar.gz

    wget http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/ripmime-1.4.0.5.tar.gz

    wget http://www.qmailrocks.org/downloads/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.0.tar.gz

    Install & configure the packages:

    tar zxvf clamav-x.xx..tar.gz

    cd clamav-x.xx

    useradd -s /sbin/nologin -d /tmp clamav

    groupadd clamav

    useradd -s /sbin/nologin -d /bin/false qscand

    groupadd qscand

    ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

    make && make check && make install

    mkdir /var/log/clamav /var/lib/clamav

    chown -R clamav:clamav /var/log/clamav /var/lib/clamav

    Now we'll do a few configuration settings to the /etc/clamd.conf file...

    vi /etc/clamd.conf

    "Example" - should be commented out.
    "LogFile" - should be set to /var/log/clamav/clamd.log
    "LogTime" - should be uncommmented.
    "LogSyslog" - should be uncommented.
    "PidFile" - should be uncommented and set to /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid
    "User" - should be set to qscand
    "ScanMail" - should be uncommented.

    And some settings to the /etc/freshclam.conf file...

    vi /etc/freshclam.conf

    "Example" - should be commented out.
    DatabaseDirectory - should be uncommented and set to /var/lib/clamav

    Ok, Clam AV is now installed, but let's go ahead and set it up so that it will auto-update every night with the latest virus definitions! First we will want to set up the proper logging for the updater....

    /usr/bin/freshclam -l /var/log/clamav/clam-update.log

    If the server is able to get updates, you should see an output similar to this:

    ClamAV update process started at Thu Dec 16 16:14:51 2004
    Downloading main.cvd [*]
    main.cvd updated (version: 28, sigs: 26630, f-level: 3, builder: tomek)
    Downloading daily.cvd [*]
    daily.cvd updated (version: 633, sigs: 1794, f-level: 3, builder: tkojm)
    Database updated (28424 signatures) from database.clamav.net (24.73.112.74).

    Woohoo! You're updated with the latest virus definiations from the Clam database!

    Now we just set a crontab to run every night, which will run the auto-update procedure! In the example below, I've set mine to run every day at 1:35 AM. The odd run time came reccomended from ClamAV, if you're wondering. Running freshclam at times other than the top of an hour reduces the load on their servers. so feel free to adjust the time to something even more offbeat, like 1:33 AM or something. The guys at ClamAV will thank you.

    crontab -e (make sure you run this command as root)

    35 1 * * * /usr/bin/freshclam --quiet -l /var/log/clamav/clam-update.log

    Now save your new crontab and exit.

    Now we need to create an init script for clamd...

    wget http://www.qmailrocks.org/downloads/scripts/misc/debian_clamd

    cp debian_clamd /etc/init.d/clamd

    chmod +x /etc/init.d/clamd

    mkdir /var/run/clamav

    chown -R qscand:qscand /var/run/clamav

    And now let's crank up clamd...

    /etc/init.d/clamd stop

    /etc/init.d/clamd start

    If clamd has started successfully, a "ps -aux | grep clamd " command should reveal it...

    qscand 11613 0.0 0.5 5972 4984 ? S 07:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/clamd

    Once you have clamd successfully operating, let's configure the server so that clamd will start up on boot. Fortunately, Debian has a utility made just for doing this..

    update-rc.d clamd start 75 2 3 4 5 .

    tar zxvf Mail-SpamAssassin-3.x.x.tar.gz

    cd Mail-SpamAssassin-3.x.x

    perl Makefile.PL (answer all questions. Use the default answers provided if you are unsure)

    make && make install

    Ok, Spamassassin is installed. Let's make some tweaks. First, we're going to add a user/group called "spamd" under which Spamassassin will be run...

    groupadd spamd

    useradd -g spamd -s /bin/false -m -d /home/spamassassin spamd

    Next, we set the spam threshold value and rewrite subject variable...

    vi /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

    Replace the contents of the local.cf file with the following config settings:

    rewrite_subject 1
    required_hits 5

    Save and exit from the file.

    And now, let's put a Spamassassin startup script in place...

    wget http://www.qmailrocks.org/downloads/scripts/misc/debian_spamd

    cp debian_spamd /etc/init.d/spamd

    chmod +x /etc/init.d/spamd

    mkdir /var/run/spamd

    chown -R spamd:spamd /var/run/spamd

    The init script contains a variable specifying the location of spamd. Let's make sure it's correct. First, find out where spamd resides...

    whereis spamd

    You should get an answer like /usr/local/bin/spamd or /usr/bin/spamd or something like that. Make a note of where spamd is located.

    Now, open the /etc/init/dspamd init script for editing....

    vi /etc/init.d/spamd

    Make sure that the following variable reflect the correct location of spamd:

    DAEMON=/correct/path/to/spamd

    And now let's crank up Spamassassin...

    /etc/init.d/spamd stop

    /etc/init.d/spamd start

    If spamd has started successfully, a "ps -aux | grep spam " command should reveal it...

    spamd 283 0.0 2.1 21152 19328 ? S 04:33 0:01 /usr/local/bin/spamd -x -u spamd -H /home/spamd -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd/spamd.pid
    spamd 339 0.0 2.1 21152 19328 ? S 04:33 0:00 spamd child
    spamd 340 0.0 2.1 21152 19328 ? S 04:33 0:00 spamd child
    spamd 341 0.0 2.1 21152 19328 ? S 04:33 0:00 spamd child
    spamd 342 0.0 2.1 21152 19328 ? S 04:33 0:00 spamd child
    spamd 343 0.0 2.1 21152 19328 ? S 04:33 0:00 spamd child

    Once you have spamassin successfully operating, let's configure the server so that spamd will start up on boot. We'll do this just like we did with clamd...

    update-rc.d spamd start 75 2 3 4 5 .

    tar -xvzf pcre-6.3.tar.gz

    cd pcre-6.3

    ./configure
    make && make install

    tar zxvf ripmime-1.4.0.5.tar.gz

    cd ripmime-1.4.0.5
    make && make install

    tar zxvf simscan-1.2.tar.gz

    cd simscan-1.2

    ./configure --enable-user=qscand --enable-clamav=y --enable-clamdscan=/usr/bin/clamdscan --enable-custom-smtp-reject=n --enable-per-domain=y --enable-attach=y --enable-spam=y --enable-spam-hits=5.0 --enable-spamc-user=y --enable-dropmsg=y --enable-ripmime=/usr/local/bin/ripmime --enable-clamavdb-path=/var/lib/clamav --enable-sigtool-path=/usr/bin/sigtool --enable-received=y




    make && make install-strip
    The reason I add user as qscanq bcoz possibly most of us installed calamav and spamassassin following qmailrocks.(remember useradd qscand :)

    vi /var/qmail/control/simcontrol

    :clam=yes,spam=yes,attach=.scr:.bat:.com:.pif:.exe:.mp3:.avi:.mpeg:.rar:.wmv

    save & exit

    ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 /usr/lib/libpcre.so.0

    /var/qmail/bin/simscanmk

    /var/qmail/bin/simscanmk -g

    Test Simscan:

    echo “hi, testing.” > mailtest.txt
    env QMAILQUEUE=/var/qmail/bin/simscan SIMSCAN_DEBUG=2 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject \
    [email protected] < mailtest.txt

    This will print a lot of debugging info, and if everything was ok, the last few lines will look like these:

    simscan: cdb looking up version regex
    simscan: cdb looking up version attach
    simscan: calling clamdscan
    simscan: cdb looking up version clamav
    simscan: normal clamdscan return code: 0
    simscan: done, execing qmail-queue
    simscan: qmail-queue exited 0

    Activate Simscan:

    vi /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run

    and add the line
    QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/simscan"; export QMAILQUEUE
    near the top.

    And also increase the softlimit to 40000000

    save & exit.

    qmailctl restart

    Hope everything went smooth so far. Wooohooo... way to go.. best of luck.




    Shamael
     
    Last edited: Nov 22, 2006
  2. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Hi Shamael,

    thank you for posting this howto. If you want to publish it on howtoforge and not only in the forum, please have a look here:

    http://www.howtoforge.com/add_howto
     
  3. fchevitarese

    fchevitarese New Member

    Very good Howto!
    Thanks a lot!
    Have Fun!
     

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