[Clamav-devel] [Feature request] Support Linux symlinks for all configuration and database folders

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, jean-christophe manciot wrote:

> On Ubuntu, freshclam 0.103.0+dfsg-3.1 does not support symlinks for
> any of the following:
> - /etc/clamav
> - /etc/ssl
> - /etc/ssl/certs
> - /var/lib/clamav
>
> If any of the aforementioned folders is a symlink, no database update
> by freshclam is possible.
> Cf. bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/+bug/1920615.

I'm not sure that this is a ClamAV issue.  Using version 0.103.1 built
from source, on the Raspberry Pi OS (which like Ubuntu is a derivative
of Debian) I do not see this problem - although I admit my testing was
perfunctory.  After renaming /etc/clamav/ to /etc/clamav.real/, then
pointing a symlink /etc/clamav/ to the renamed directory, I used the
freshclam utility manually to update the databases on the system.  It
produced the expected result - in this case the 'daily' database was
one update step out of date, and it was updated successfully.

Are you using SELinux, AppArmor or similar?

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73,
Ged.