Stephen Gran said: > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:17:34PM +0200, Tomasz Kojm said: >> The only 'essential' information you have provided is that >> clamav-milter prints "Permission denied" on startup so don't expect >> constructive help from me. > > The problem here is that clamav opens/creates the log at > clamd/clamd.c:144, but only drops priviledges to the user specified by > the User directive at clamd/clamd.c:235 > > It would perhaps be better if this priviledge drop happened earlier, > before opening the logfile. I have never noticed this behavior, as the > set up scripts and log rotate scripts I use always touch the logfile and > give it appropriate permissions. > > Since the milter never complained about log file permissions until > recently, I guess no one else noticed it either.
I think it would be better if clamd, like syslogd, didn't create the file at all. End of problem. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
