severity 458015 normal retitle 458015 clamav-base: Could be more robust when group has been removed thanks This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:42:43PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > This can go wrong if you've removed the package but not purged it and > > then delgroup'ed the group (if you purge the package, it removes both > > user and group), or if even on a fresh install there is a user but no > > group present. Both of those are so strange I didn't (and don't) > > consider them hugely interesting cases to code around. > > > > I just don't know how you've gotten that error. The only thing I can > > think of is that you may have scripts for copying in accounts into the > > chroot that fails to also copy in the groups? > > I can't be sure of this, but what I _might_ have done is copying /etc/passwd > and/or /etc/group from outside the chroot (to propagate UIDs/GIDs). > > Perhaps I only copied /etc/passwd (which presumably would include 'clamav') > and not /etc/group ? That would explain it. > > In that case, I'd suggest making it more robust. Something like:
OK. To be honest, I am not inclined to think of this as a bug in clamav at this point, but a bug in the environment. The changes are simple, so I'll probably apply them, but they're certainly not RC. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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