[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#749027: Bug#749027: The ClamAV daemon stops working.

[Jim Barber]

On 6/06/2014 2:24 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream pending
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> upstream fixed the problem and I have backported the fix for Debian, so that it will be included in the next upload.
>
> Until then just disable ScanOnAccess to work around the problem.
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas

After reading the discussion on the upstream bug report, it looks like
perhaps these error messages in the logs were relevant after all...

	-> ERROR: ScanOnAccess: fanotify_init failed: Operation not permitted
	-> ScanOnAccess: clamd must be started by root

Is ScanOnAccess something that is toggled depending on how you answer dpkg
configuration questions?
Or is it something I manually need to change in the /etc/clamav/clamd.conf ?
I didn't see a question relevant to it at installation time.

I have done a fresh install of clamav-daemon on a virtual machine and
ScanOnAccess is set to false.
To my knowledge I never manually set it to true on the system that I have the
issue with.
So I can only guess that it was enabled in one of the older clamav-daemon
packages and subsequent upgrades have preserved the setting?
I've been using this Debian system for many years (I think since around 2009)
Either that, or I set it so long ago I just can't remember doing it.

Thanks for all your help resolving the issue Andreas.
I look forward to the fixed packages appearing in the Debian mirror.

Regards,