> > 1. Is your Perl interpreter in /usr/local/bin/? It's often in usr/bin/. >
Thanks I saw that after the fact, indeed /usr/bin in Fedora 2. The environment is likely to be different when the script runs via > freshclam from when it runs at the command line, and it's usually bad > form in scripts to rely on the environment anyway, so in any script of > this kind I'd use full paths to executables. For example on my system > these would be > > /bin/chown > /usr/bin/logger > and > /usr/local/bin/clamdscan > > but what are they on yours? I'd also use full paths everywhere else > instead of relative paths. Things can go wrogn ervy kuiqly. > /usr/bin for the all 3 > 3. What is uid 110 on your system? On my clamd server it's 'sshd'. > This means that if I were to run it as root as it is, the script would > change ownership of the modified files to the wrong user (which would > break future updates unless root did them) and for other users fail. > Yes caught those after the fact and updated the script accordingly 4. People store the ClamAV databases in different places. The script > makes assumptions about them, have you changed them in the script to > suit your system, or do you have or have you the needed directories? > /var/db/clamav-unofficial-sigs/post-control/ > /var/db/clamav/ > Different on ours: /var/lib/clamav-unofficial-sigs/dbs-mbl/ And I went ahead and created /var/lib/clamav-unofficial-sigs/dbs-mbl/post-control and not sure why we have a test dir: /var/lib/clamav-unofficial-sigs/test 5. The script does no error checking at all. It's good practice in > scripts to check the return values of functions which provide them, > such as 'chdir', 'link', 'unlink', 'chown' and (especially) 'open'. > Anything off the top of your head I can add? > Is there a sigtool command I can use to check that it worked? I can > > compare this against another server that I have yet to install this. > > sigtool --find-sigs <deleted_signature_name> > > should give you an idea of what's happened. The signature does not exist when I run this command.
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