This one time, at band camp, Graham said:
> 
> 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?
> 
> I can successfully run clamscan as a normal user.

I see the cause of this.  I am not sure why upstream has this error
condition in clamscan - it seems designed to break scanning as root.

I will talk to upstream about the problem.  Thanks for your report.
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