[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#672537: Unnecessary? dependency on clamav-daemon

[Bill Landry]

On 5/24/2012 10:55 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 22:02 -0700, Bill Landry wrote:
>
>> Paul, have you enabled this status check as the default setting in the
>> Debian distro?
>
> Hmm, it seems I did so inadvertently; Debian's clamav-daemon uses a
> different location for the clamd socket so I set the location in the
> Debian config file, not noticing that setting a socket location also had
> the effect of turning on the watchdog function. I guess I will revert
> this then.

You can leave the path, just comment out the variable in case someone 
want to enable the status check.

> I'm wondering if the next version of clamav-unofficial-sigs should just
> use clamconf to get relevant paths (clamd_socket, clamd_pid, clam_dbs)
> and have a more explicitly named option clamd_check_status to enable the
> clamd checks.

Actually, that's not a bad idea.  When I first wrote the script clamconf 
didn't exist.  I'll look into adding this in the next release.

Bill