[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#526173: clamav-milter: initscript fails to start, options are deprecated

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Micah Anderson <micah at debian.org> [2009.04.29.2005 +0200]:
> First all previous command-line options seem to have mysteriously
> disappeared and no documentation about where they went, or what they
> should be replaced by in the config file. Pretty much any command-line
> option causes milter to not start.

I used to have

  --max-children=10 -olq --dont-wait --noreject

The options map to the following directives in
/etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf:

  -l                LocalNet  (I just left it disabled)
  -o                ?
  -q                ?
  --noreject        OnInfected (Blackhole|Accept|Quarantine)
  --dont-wait       ?
  --max-children    ?

I think -o and -q are not needed with the new On* directives.
--dont-wait and --max-children, well, I don't know about those. It
might be that it uses clamd's MaxThreads, but we'll see.

A few other notes to make it work:

1. disable $OPTIONS and $SOCKET in /etc/default/clamav-milter.
   Configure the socket with the MilterSocket config directive.

2. Leave $USE_POSTFIX if you need it.

When clamav-milter starts, it'll warn:

  Starting Sendmail milter plugin for ClamAV: clamav-milterWARNING: Ignoring option local:/var/spool/postfix/clamav/clamav-milter.ctl

but this can be ignored. Only a rewrite of the init.d script will
be able to properly fix that.

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