[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#961884: add init script / systemd unit for clamonacc background scanner

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:08:31 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian at breakpoint.cc> wrote:
> On 2020-05-30 19:53:49 [+0000], Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> > package clamav-daemon ships a file /usr/bin/clamonacc which is a
> > background virus scaning guard / real-time protection. It's currently
> > non-trivial to use.
> > 
> > sudo clamonacc
> > 
> > ERROR: Clamonacc: at least one of OnAccessExcludeUID,
> > OnAccessExcludeUname, or OnAccessExcludeRootUID must be specified ... it
> > is reccomended you exclude the clamd instance UID or uname to prevent
> > infinite event scanning loops
> > 
> > May I suggest adding an init script / systemd unit file which runs the
> > clamonacc background scanner?
> 
> The config file has to be touched manually to configure it properly. In
> the past this was part of clamd and people managed to lockup / deadlock
> their systems. Therefore I hesitate to add an initscript here.
> However I agree that even with proper configuration an initscript would
> be nice here since there is no need to over complicate it.
> 
> Feel free to post something (by someone who is actually using it),
> otherwise I try to add something later on.

As of clamav-daemon 1.0.0+dfsg-5, a systemd unit is provided for
clamonacc, so it looks like this issue has been addressed.

However, the unit is enabled by default. This looks like a bug, because
the service fails to start with the default configuration.

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