[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#626547: Bug#626547: incorrect /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid owner set if clamav installed on system with HAL

Teodor MICU mteodor at gmail.com
Fri May 13 07:52:11 UTC 2011


2011/5/13 Stephen Gran <sgran at debian.org>:
> I don't see how this is possible.

It is possible, but under specific circumstances. It happened to me
for a service (I don't remember which one) and it was caused by the
service removal (directory in /var/run was not deleted), manually
deleted the user of that service, installed a new service that added a
new system user with the ID used by previous one. Next the reinstall
of the first service added a new system user with a different ID than
what the directory on /var/run/SERVICE had.

In conclusion, it is a corner situation that can only handled by not
*ever* removing system users as it was recently decided by consensus
on debian-devel. The only question is where (postrm or debhelper) and
how to implement it.

Thanks





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