> On 27. Aug 2022, at 08:31, FreeBSD User <free...@walstatt-de.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm referencing to Bug 259699 [2] and Bug 259585 [1].
>
> Port security/clamav is without doubt for many of FreeBSD users an important
> piece of security
> software so I assume a widespread usage.
>
> It is also a not uncommon use case to use NanoBSD or any kind of
> low-memory-footprint
> installation schemes in which /var/run - amongst other system folders - are
> created at boot
> time as TMPFS and highly volatile.
>
> In our case, the boxes running a small security appliance based upon FreeBSD
> is rebooted every
> 24 hours and so /var/run is vanishing.
>
> To make the long story short:
>
> The solution for this problem would be a check for existence and take action
> addendum in
> precmd() routine of the rc-script as sketched in Bug 259699.
> The maintainer rejects such a workaround by arguing this would violate POLA
> (see comment 4 in
> PR 259699 [2]. The maintainer's argument regaring to mtree's files are sound
> to me.
>
> The question is: how can this issue be solved?
>
> It is really hard to always chenge our local repository and patch whenever
> clamav has been
> patched and modified for what reason ever.
>
> Tahanks for reading,
>
Why don’t you simply add an rc script to your appliance that creates the
missing directory/directories on boot before clamav is started?
Best
Michael