Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam permissions on database directory

2009-06-11 Thread Tom Shaw
At 7:24 AM -0700 6/11/09, Dennis Peterson wrote: >Tom Shaw wrote: > >> >> Under OSX you should not run freshclam as a deamon but as a periodic >> process run by launchd as _clamav:_clamav. Likewise for clamd. THis >> allows for automatic process restart by launchd if there is a problem >> (fo

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam permissions on database directory

2009-06-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Tom Shaw wrote: > > Under OSX you should not run freshclam as a deamon but as a periodic > process run by launchd as _clamav:_clamav. Likewise for clamd. THis > allows for automatic process restart by launchd if there is a problem > (for example the bug that caused 0.94.2 to randomly crash u

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam permissions on database directory

2009-06-11 Thread Tom Shaw
At 7:03 AM -0700 6/11/09, Dennis Peterson wrote: >Ian Cheong wrote: >> I've just done a clean (previous uninstall) default (configure;make;install >> with no options) install of clamAV0.95.2 on MacOS10.5.7. Running freshclam >> generates the following errors. >> >> ERROR: chdir_tmp: Can't creat

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam permissions on database directory

2009-06-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Ian Cheong wrote: > I've just done a clean (previous uninstall) default (configure;make;install > with no options) install of clamAV0.95.2 on MacOS10.5.7. Running freshclam > generates the following errors. > > ERROR: chdir_tmp: Can't create directory > ./clamav-f6cd08cec8c72896e10b38ef34215214 >

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam permissions on database directory

2009-06-11 Thread Ian Cheong
At 8:26 AM -0400 11/6/09, Tom Shaw wrote: >At 10:07 AM +1000 6/11/09, Ian Cheong wrote: >[...] > >My question is: >>What is the ideal secure solution for freshclam and clamav database >>permissions? > >What user/group is freshclam running as? Using 0.95.1 on 10.5.7, I >use a periodic launchd which

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam permissions on database directory

2009-06-11 Thread Tom Shaw
At 10:07 AM +1000 6/11/09, Ian Cheong wrote: >I've just done a clean (previous uninstall) default (configure;make;install >with no options) install of clamAV0.95.2 on MacOS10.5.7. Running freshclam >generates the following errors. > >ERROR: chdir_tmp: Can't create directory >./clamav-f6cd08cec8c728

[Clamav-users] freshclam permissions on database directory

2009-06-10 Thread Ian Cheong
I've just done a clean (previous uninstall) default (configure;make;install with no options) install of clamAV0.95.2 on MacOS10.5.7. Running freshclam generates the following errors. ERROR: chdir_tmp: Can't create directory ./clamav-f6cd08cec8c72896e10b38ef34215214 WARNING: Incremental update fai