Ubuntu
clamav package

tmpfs /var/run/clamav does not exist after reboot

Bug #29571 reported by Bart Verwilst
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clamav (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

After rebooting, clamav-daemon does not start because it can't create the socket files in /var/run/clamav, because that directory doesn't exist. The init script should first create the directory and chown it to the user that clamav runs under..

Thanks in advance!

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Carlos Eduardo Pedroza Santiviago (segfault) wrote :

I've confirmed it and made this following change:
[...]
  start)
    mkdir -p /var/run/clamav
    chown clamav:clamav /var/run/clamav
  if [ -z "$RUN_SUPERVISED" ] ; then
[...]

However, it would be more correct to get the user who'll run clamav from /etc/clamav/clamd.conf, and then chown to him.Like:

USER="`grep ^User $CLAMAVCONF | awk '{print $2}'`"

Changed in clamav:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Bart Verwilst (verwilst) wrote :

Yip, got the same fix on my production systems as well :)

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Bart Verwilst (verwilst) wrote :

Is fixed in current versions.. IIRC can be closed!

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote : Re: [Bug 29571] tmpfs /var/run/clamav does not exist after reboot

 status FixReleased

Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis-merged)
Changed in clamav:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Bart Verwilst (verwilst) wrote : Fix owner of /var/run/clamav

One more fix ( currently it's not fully fixed ). The directory is made now by the init script, but the directory has wrong permissions ( root:root ), so clamav-daemon will not start because write access is refused. My patch fully fixes this.

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Bart Verwilst (verwilst) wrote :

Same thing should be changed in /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam, but then for directory /var/log/clamav/ -R.

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