On 3/2/07, Jose Celestino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Doesn't this commit fix the problem:
r2842 | tkojm | 2007-02-22 20:13:13 +0200 (Thu, 22 Feb 2007) | 2 lines
drop rmdirs() and use cli_rmdirs() instead
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