On 3/1/07 10:55 AM, "Gerard Seibert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday March 01, 2007 at 12:45:20 (PM) John W. Baxter wrote: > >> The way our system operates, we learned of the problem well after the 700 >> permissions were set up, when I restarted our mail processing system for >> another reason. (We run two processing systems per machine--handling >> submitted mail and handling incoming-from-the-world mail, each under its own >> user, so 700 is "difficult" for us.) > > You might be able to script something to check the permissions and > change them if they are not what you expected. Probably running it via > CRON would take care of the problem. I will if it happens again. But it's been quite a while now without problems, and (for us) the trigger was clear: the switch of methods by freshclam. That says that one possible future trigger might be a mirror not offering the new method, which--speculatively--might cause Freshclam to toss out daily.inc and download daily.cvd, then later switch back to the new method again. --John _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html