On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 07:25:40PM -0700, Dennis Peterson said:
> imacat said:
> >     The newly-released ClamAV 0.85 seems to have problem starting:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /usr/sbin/clamav-milter -C -f -N -q -m 20 --pidfile
> > /var/run/clamav-milter.pid -U /var/spool/virusmails
> > /var/run/clamav-milter.sock
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /dev/console: Permission denied
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -l /dev/console
> > crw-------    1 root     tty        5,   1 May  4 00:39 /dev/console
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
> >
> >     I'm running devfs.  clamav-milter is run as daemon.  /dev/console is
> > created automatically each time my server is rebooted, so it's non-sense
> > for me to "chmod 666 /dev/consone".
> 
> You can add a script to the startup process that does this for you. I had
> to do that to an auto-created ro directory in /tmp on Solaris
> (/tmp/.X11-unix) to allow reliable VNC operation. Simple stuff, really.

It is, but working around the bug by making root's console world writable
isn't necessarily the best thing to do.  The bug is triggered by the
absence of a LogFile directive.  Put something in for a log file, and
it should work for you.
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