[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#881780: Bug#881780: clamav-freshclam: reconfiguring to manual update doesn't disable daemon

[Bob Bib]

On 11/16/2017 11:37 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> During dpkg-reconfigure it asks you for checks and you probably had 24
> as I did while I tried redo what you did.
> If we switch to cron then there is a check for the cron file and
> freshclam does not start.

> I have no idea why the daemon is not disabled
> if switched to `manual'. I can't even tell why it is run once after
> dpkg-reconfigure finishes.

The daemon is stopped after dpkg-reconfigure finishes,
but restarts after the system reboots.
Who knows (I haven't inspected that), maybe those scripts just stop the daemon,
and forget to disable it actually :)

> That said
> 	systemctl disable clamav-freshclam.service
> 
> should do the job without the "Checks 0" thingy. So might add it to the
> script since it looks good atm.

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Best wishes,
Bob