Bug 43666 – In clamav-0.67, freshclam ignores -u option. Always starts as clamav user.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Martin Diers 2004-03-03 15:51:11 UTC]

In prior versions of clamav, the freshclam daemon could run under the user specified with the -u command line option, usually set in /etc/conf.d/clamd.

In the 0.67 ebuild, freshclam always starts as the clamav user.

clamd, however, honors the user settings in /etc/clamav.conf, and starts an the specified user.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 09:08:55 UTC]

Actually, freshclam only honors the settings in /etc/freshclam.conf
and this isn't a gentoo specific problem, encountered this on Fedora as well.

[Comment 2 Martin Diers 2004-03-04 09:47:09 UTC]

Then it would appear that we have some abiguity between /etc/conf.d/clamd and /etc/freshclam.conf

Namely, the ebuild uses settings in /etc/conf.d/clamd to specify options which should be picked up in /etc/clamav.conf and /etc/freshclam.conf.

For instance, the log file name is being set in /etc/conf.d/clamd, where it should be set in /etc/freshclam.conf and /etc/clamav.conf.

That means we need an update in the init scripts which eliminates the logfile settings in /etc/conf.d/clamd.

[Comment 3 Thomas Raschbacher 2004-07-30 18:45:20 UTC]

is this still an issue in newer versions? (since i'd like to get rid of the old ones asap)

[Comment 4 Thomas Raschbacher 2004-10-08 12:22:12 UTC]

please test if this is still an issue in 0.75.1 and/or 0.80_rc3