Realtime scanning of files uploaded by pure-ftpd is disabled because third-party pure-uploadscript process was detected

Issue

• Can not enable Automatically scan any file uploaded using ftp option. The following message is displayed:

  Realtime scanning of files uploaded by pure-ftpd is disabled because third-party pure-uploadscript process was detected

• The process is running:

  # ps aux | grep uploadscript | grep -v grep
  root 1210 0.0 0.0 237760 2088 ? Ss 13:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/pure-uploadscript -r /usr/local/bin/pureftpd_uploadscan.sh

Environment

• Imunify360
• pure-ftpd
• pure-uploadscript

Solution

1. Disable pure-uploadscript through the configuration file /etc/pure-ftpd.conf (change the value to no) to make the automatic scanning via FTP running again. Refer to the following parameter of the config in question:

   # grep uploadscript -A 5 /etc/pure-ftpd.conf
   # If your pure-ftpd has been compiled with pure-uploadscript support,
   # this will make pure-ftpd write info about new uploads to
   # /var/run/pure-ftpd.upload.pipe so pure-uploadscript can read it and
   # spawn a script to handle the upload.
   # Don't enable this option if you don't actually use pure-uploadscript.
   
   CallUploadScript yes

2. Kill the corresponding process and restart the pure-ftpd service to apply the changes:

   # ps aux | grep uploadscript | grep -v grep
   root 1210 0.0 0.0 237760 2088 ? Ss 13:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/pure-uploadscript -r /usr/local/bin/pureftpd_uploadscan.sh
   
   # kill 1210
   
   # systemctl restart pure-ftpd