Words by Jose Celestino [Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:24:10AM +0000]: > Hi, > > stepped into an infinite loop on freshclam when there's no permissions > for daily.inc and daily.inc/*. > > I know the permissions are an install problem but it may happen and the > loop is a major CPU chewer: > > root 232 0.0 0.0 1928 652 ? S 2006 0:46 /usr/sbin/cron > root 4915 0.0 0.0 2040 724 ? S 13:44 0:00 \_ > /USR/SBIN/CRON > qscand 4916 73.9 0.0 2892 848 ? R 13:44 421:12 \_ > /ptmail/av/bin/freshclam > root 4918 0.0 0.0 1524 300 ? S 13:44 0:00 \_ > bin/qmail-inject -a -- root > qmailq 4922 0.0 0.0 1488 288 ? S 13:44 0:00 \_ > bin/qmail-queue > > Attached is a patch for shared/misc.c that fixes this (haven't tested > it though) and a strace dump of the looping process. >
Anyone considered merging this patch (or solving this any other way)? Been bitten a couple for times lately with reinstalls leaving the old owner on the directory. -- Jose Celestino ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.msversus.org/ ; http://techp.org/petition/show/1 http://www.vinc17.org/noswpat.en.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- "And on the trillionth day, Man created Gods." -- Thomas D. Pate _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
