[clamav-users] failed to write to

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Sun Dec 8 15:40:41 UTC 2019


On 2019-12-08 17:02, ratatouille via clamav-users wrote:
> "G.W. Haywood via clamav-users" <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
> schrieb am 08.12.19 um 14:02:46 Uhr:
> 
>> On Sat, 7 Dec 2019, ratatouille via clamav-users wrote:
>> 
>> > It fails to create the tmp-folder. No problem when I call freshclam
>> > from a terminal.
>> 
>> When you run freshclam from the terminal, what user is running 
>> freshclam?
>> 
>> If it is root, have you tried starting freshclam as root to see if the
>> problem goes away?
> 
> I stop freshclam systemctl stop freshclam.
> clamd is also stoped then. So I start it with systemctl start clamd
> and then fresclam is also startet.
> 
> I kill freshclam and clamd is still running.
> Then I start freshclam -d as root and it is running as vscan, as 
> always.
> 
> What else could I do?
> 
>   Andreas
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Clamav compiled from sources on Slackware (without systemd) -> creating 
the tmp folder with the appropriate permissions -> the folder remains 
after the automatic update but is deleted after the update from the 
command line with freshclam.

It may be a bug!



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