Hello Kevin O'C,
> could not launch xmessage as clamav user - xauth > permission error as predicted by Stephen - clamav > group membership cannot provide permission required - > root user only. i don't have to use xmessage - just > want something to notify users in x session (popup) > that a virus has been detected. security concerns > aside, should i try running clamd daemon as root and > how do i do this? First of all, you need to tell xmessage where it should connect to (hint: set the DISPLAY variable to :0.0) Then you need to give xmessage permission to connect to that X session. Either you allow _any_ program running on localhost (hint: security risk!) to connect to X with: $ xhost +localhost inside X, or you use xauth: # su $LOGNAME -c "xauth extract - $DISPLAY" | xauth merge - where $LOGNAME is the user under which X is running and $DISPLAY most likely is :0.0 . man xauth for more info. You probably need to wrap everything inside a script... This has nothing to do with ClamAV, please ask somewhere else for more info. Best regards -- Luca Gibelli (luca at clamav.net) - ClamAV, a GPL virus scanner PGP Key Fingerprint: C782 121E 8C3A 90E3 7A87 D802 6277 8FF4 5EFC 5582 PGP Key Available on: Key Servers || http://www.clamav.net/gpg/luca.gpg _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
