This one time, at band camp, Adam D. Barratt said: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 09:41 -0400, Graham wrote: > > Package: clamav > > Version: 0.88.4-2 > > > > When I run "clamscan" as root, it shows this message: > > > > ERROR: Can't get information about user clamav > > > > then exits without scanning anything. > > > > Indeed, there does not seem to be a "clamav" user on my system. Maybe > > the clamav package should create it? > > In a word, yes. I'm a little confused as to how you've ended up without > the user, to be honest. > > Every package since 0.69-0.70-rc-1 has used the following in its > postinst script:
He has only installed the package clamav, which doesn't depend on -base, which is where the user creation is handled. It's easy to add a dependency on -base, but I'm not sure it's the right thing to do. I am looking through the code base to see why it special cases root scans (it appears at first glance to do very little with the clamav user information so far), and if it seems reasonable, I'll just add the Depends line. If it seems spurious, I'll send a patch upstream. Thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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