[Pkg-clamav-devel] Initial start of clamav-daemon

[Scott Kitterman]

On April 24, 2016 1:59:24 PM EDT, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian at breakpoint.cc> wrote:
>On 2016-04-22 18:31:10 [+0200], Dilyan Palauzov wrote:
>> Hello,
>Hi,
>
>> I propose removing the ConditionPathExistsGlob from
>> clamav-daemon.s(ervice,ocket). Then, once freshclam is ready, it will
>notify
>> clamd over the socket, systemd will start clamd because of
>> clamav-daemon.socket  and everything is fine.  If somebody tries to
>contact
>> the socket before freshclam is ready, and clamd starts and fails due
>to
>> missing databases, we have the current situation: in order to start
>clamd,
>> it has to be restarted manually, once the databases have been
>downloaded.
>> So removing ConditionPathExistsGlob is an improvement, as it boots
>the
>> system correctly in more cases, than now.
>
>This does not sound that bad. I am not sure at the time of writting but
>I
>*think* that we could start clamd without signatures (which is what you
>suggests).

I don't believe we can.  If libclamav doesn't find signatures when initialized, my recollection is that it errors out.

Scott K