[CentOS] clamav

Fri May 30 08:56:01 UTC 2014
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

On 05/30/2014 10:04 AM, Filip Bartmann wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2014 21:53:53 -0700
> Emmett Culley <lst_manage at webengineer.com> wrote:
>
>> Every time I update my system with clamav, it doesn't restart and
>> freshclam no longer works, because of a permission issue on the log
>> directory.  Each time I update clamav I have to search the Internet
>> to figure out what there is to do.  That NEVER helps so I try
>> different combinations on user and group in amavis-new and clamav
>> configuratio files, until I eventually get them both to work.
>>
>> I am getting clamav and amavisd update from the epel repo.  What can
>> I do to prevent this from happening?
>
>
> I have same issue, and i have after each update change permissions
> of /var/log/clamav and /var/lib/clamav to amavis.amavis.
>
> Filip Bartmann
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"It turns out that the EPEL version uses user 'clam' while the RPMforge 
version uses user "clamav"."
and
"Now - i've removed all instances of Clam and any trace from /etc /var 
including users and groups and added the EPEL version afresh."

from:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794945

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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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PL Computers
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