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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:28:57 -0400

> If you run clamd as an unprivledged user (and you should), then you 
> can't scan files with clamdscan that the unprivledged user doesn't have 
> access to (ie: /root/). You can use clamscan there however, as it would 
> run as the user executing the command.
> 
> 
> Ryan Moore
And the light goes on! Thanks Ryan. Makes perfect sense. I forgot I set clamd to
run as nobody...

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