[clamav-users] /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/run/clamav’: File exists

[Kris Deugau]

Dino Edwards wrote:
> Answering my own question on the /var/run and the /run directories. 
> There is a link between the two, I just didn’t go up a level in the 
> directory structure. The question about the error still remains though.

The chown and mkdir look a bit suspect to me;  I'm not seeing anything 
like that in the Debian packages (which should be mostly the same in 
Ubuntu).  What I *do* see in one of the stock files 
(/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.socket) is this stanza:

[Socket]
ListenStream=/run/clamav/clamd.ctl
#ListenStream=127.0.0.1:1024
SocketUser=clamav
SocketGroup=clamav
RemoveOnStop=True

which if I understand correctly, implies that clamd on this system is 
using systemd's socket creation/handling voodoo rather than doing so itself.

Can you post:

- Output from  "dpkg -L clamav-daemon |grep system"

- Contents of any .service or .socket files from the above list

- Contents of any files in /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service.d


> Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service; enabled; 
> vendor preset: enabled)
> 
>    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service.d
> 
>             └─extend.conf

This seems to indicate that you're not using the stock systemd service 
definitions from Ubuntu/Debian upstream.

-kgd