[CentOS] new clamav update miss 'clamav' user/group creation/update

Mon Jul 3 11:44:04 UTC 2006
rado <rado at rivers-bend.com>

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:51 +0200, J.J.Garcia wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 11:04 +0200, J.J.Garcia wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>Just updating clamav 'bundle' from old 'clamav-server' (i think the just
> >>previous) and i noticed that the 'clamav' user/group for this pkg is not created
> >>by default by the rpm pkg.
> >>
> >>At the same time, the /var/log/clamav is not updated/created with clamav.clamav
> >>ownership,
> >>
> >>Don't know if it is my actual config (previous one untouched anyway), but this
> >>is what i did to get it up and running in a CentOs 4.3 host
> >>
> >>Thanks for your ideas
> >>
> >>Jose
> >>
> > 
> > You are mixing 2 different clamav builds ... one is coming from Dag
> > Wieers' EL4 repo ... the other is coming from KBS-CentOS-Extras repo.
> > Dag's packages are built from the RPMForge spec file, KBS is built from
> > a different spec file (from Fedora Extras).
> > 
> > Both of these clamav builds work fine ... but they are different and
> > don't work well together.
> > 
> > Pick one repo to do clamav from ... in the other one, inside the repo
> > definition for that repo, do this:
> > 
> > exclude=clamd clamav*
> > 
> > That should take care of dualing repo problems for clamav.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Johnny Hughes
> > 
> > 
> 
> Is that a provisional issue?
> 
> I mean, IMHO there's no point in maintaining this two releases of the same
> thing/pkg in different repositories, unless you name them different to be
> seleccted as appropiate (not exclude tag involved).
> 
> If so, how many pkgs are going to be like this way? It seems to me it could be a
> nightmare, but this is only my opinion. Hints allowed.
> 
> TIA for your time,
> 
> Jose.
> 
I can't ever remember upgrading clamav where I did not have to change
file permissions on the log files. It's never been a problem...rather
just something I do. I even wrote a little howto about it on my site.

you don't take it's life just because it can't do one thing

John Rose
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