[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#942172: clamav-daemon: After upgrade, clamd cannon create /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl and stop.

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 10/12/19 6:32 PM, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did not notice this bug during my tests. I have just tried to reproduce
> it by upgrading a jessie system from 0.100.3+dfsg-0+deb8u1 to
> 0.101.4+dfsg-0+deb8u1 and did not experience any issue restarting
> clamav-daemon.
> 
> Furthermore, /var/run/clamav/ belonging to root:root or clamav:root does
> not seem to change anything on my system. My understanding is that
> /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl is created by systemd, not by the daemon itself.
> 
> Also, I don't think chown clamav /var/run/clamav should survive a restart.
> 
> Filipe: did you also experience this bug?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> regards,
> Hugo
> 

Hello,

I noticed this problem as well on a few Jessie servers. It looks like it takes ClamAV a long time
to read/update the virus definitions and thus hits a timeout set by systemd.

Regards
         Racke

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