[clamav-users] freshclam leaving files in /tmp

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 2020-09-29 08:30, Duncan Berriman via clamav-users wrote:
> Good point. I will sort it out.
> 
> Perhaps the example conf files should use/suggest a better location.

Soonish:

 https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-devel/pull/132/commits/d078ea13

The main roadblock is that the service manager (systemd, OpenRC, SysV
init...) needs to know about that location, too, so that it can create
the parent directory and make it writable to (only) the user/group that
clamd is running as.

I'm only guessing, but /tmp/clamd.sock was probably chosen because it
works "out of the box," by virtue of /tmp being world-writable. Of
course, that's why you should NOT use it...