[clamav-users] Freshclam temp dir

[Paul]

Hi

The problem of the undeleted tmp.xxxxx directory is caused by the use of 
   --on-update-execute=EXIT_1

I have examined freshclam.c and it appears to me that on update 
freshclam exits with status 1 via a  call to execute().

The call to execute() precedes  code which should remove the temp dir.


Thanks

On 30/09/2020 09:32, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Paul via clamav-users wrote:
>
>> I run "/usr/bin/freshclam --quiet --on-update-execute=EXIT_1  " 
>> hourly and find that the temporary directory is emptied but not 
>> removed from /var/lib/clamav
>>
>> when freshclam picks up the daily updates.  This appears to have been 
>> occurring with 102 and latest 103 releases.
>>
>> Am I missing something ?
>
> More information please.  For example what is your operating system,
> how was ClamAV installed on it, how are you running the command, which
> user ID is executing freshclam, why do you want freshclam to return an
> error code of 1 on a successful update (and have you tried running the
> command without that (and why do you run the command hourly to get an
> update which occurs only daily)), have you asked freshclam not to be
> --quiet, have you configured freshclam to write in the log and have
> you looked there, have you asked freshclam for more information (using
> -v and/or --debug), can you let us see a copy of your freshclam.conf,
> and any more stuff like that that you can think of.
>