[clamav-users] New installation 103.3; failing freshclam

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 19 Jul 2021, Paul Rogers via clamav-users wrote:
> 
>> G.W. Haywood wrote:
>> https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_VERBOSE.html
>
> I'm afraid this is no help to me.  My programming experience long
> predates C, FORTRAN II was my native tongue.

Sorry, when you wrote

>>> I may be new to clam, but I've been building & running my own LFS
>>> systems since 2004.

I guess I got the wrong impression.  Perhaps you should try

https://curl.se/mail/

for help configuring curl's logging.

You do seem to be making things more difficult than necessary.  Much
as I don't like some of the decisions that are made by many of the
distro purveyors, it's worth years of toil and strife just to be able
to install things with one command given to a package manager.  Until
now I'd have thought anyone running LFS wouldn't find much use for
ClamAV but wouldn't have much difficulty in using it.  What's the use
case for ClamAV in your system?  From what you've said I'd think that
the attackable surface would be so small that ClamAV could contribute
relatively little to its further reduction.

> ... note march=i686! ...

I don't think that's relevant here.

>> But why didn't you just spin up a VM like I suggested?  With a little
>> bit of effort you'd have had it up and running nearly three weeks ago.
>
> Because this old system built to run on legacy 32-bit hardware only
> has llvm installed ...

Again, the badly-named llvm is irrelevant.

> This is not a kitchen-sink distro.

Yes, it's Linux From Scratch.  But you do run X, and some kind of a
window manager?  Can you not install VirtualBox?

>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Jul  7 22:42 private
>
>> Those permissions look wrong to me.
>
> It's empty anyhow.  What should it be?  (I was running freshclam as root.)

drwxr-x--- 2 root root    4096 Jul  7 22:42 private

It's called 'private' for a reason. :)  But it's not the issue here.

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73,
Ged.