Am 17.10.18 um 18:11 schrieb Dino Edwards: > Get real. When I and others called you out, you decided to put a little more > detail to cover the obvious fact that you were just trying to be a dick. > > The important thing you fail to understand that I did NOT write the script to > start the service. So any "mkdir/chown dance" as you put it, was NOT done by > me, but rather the package maintainer. This USED to work in previous > Ubuntu/clamd version, now it no longer works. So, I'm trying to figure out > why it's not working and if I should bring this up in the appropriate Ubuntu > forum.
if the unit is not written by you, comes from Ubuntu and now stopped working guess what: you should have contacted the appropriate Ubuntu forum to start with i just pointed out that i am suprised after that many years that one still don't know about /run and how to handle it properly and frankly: when you don#t undertsan dthe "directory already exists" message and ask here insetad jump on the packager with did this bullshit and *pretty clear* did even not try to restart his damned unit a single time how should one help you? > -----Original Message----- > From: Reindl Harald [mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net] > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 11:39 AM > To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>; Dino Edwards > <dino.edwa...@mydirectmail.net>; gblo...@eclipso.eu > Subject: Re: [clamav-users] /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory > ‘/run/clamav’: File exists > > Am 17.10.18 um 14:33 schrieb Dino Edwards: >> How about you contribute something of value to this discussion instead of a >> link about how this was added in Linux 7 years ago so you can show everyone >> how clever you are. > > i contributed the link which explains how these folders are supposed to get > created at boot and any mkdir/chown dance is plain wrong - it's not my fault > that you don't recognize input when you get it > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html > > and if one insists in "ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir /run/clamav" he should make it > proper as "ExecStartPre=-/bin/mkdir /run/clamav" which don't fail the whole > service in case the directory already exists > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Reindl Harald [mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 8:29 AM >> To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>; Dino Edwards >> <dino.edwa...@mydirectmail.net> >> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory >> ‘/run/clamav’: File exists >> >> >> Am 17.10.18 um 13:12 schrieb Dino Edwards: >>> Good morning? >> >> what about read posted links and don't strip context? >> >> /run was introduced 7 years ago and the discussion about it made it to >> every it news portal and that's what i mean when somebody is surprised >> that /run is a tmpfs available at early boot which also means you need >> to make sure folders there are created at boot >> >> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html >> >>> Am 16.10.18 um 19:12 schrieb Dino Edwards: >>>> good morning in 2018 >> >> >> -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- >> >> Am 16.10.18 um 19:12 schrieb Dino Edwards: >>> Answering my own question on the /var/run and the /run directories. >>> There is a link between the two >> good morning in 2018 >> >> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-distributions-to-include- >> run-directory-1219006.html > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml