I bet you have a third-party repo in there and there's a 'battle of the banjos' going on: one repo has clam using clamav and the other using clam
Do what we did. Edit /etc/passwd and make both accounts have the same UID Problem solved forever ;-) Jason On 27/06/15 07:24, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Bob Cohen wrote: > >>> On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote: >>> >>> So what are the permissions for /var/run/clamav? (Does that directory >>> even exist?) And what user/group IDs does your clamd daemon run under? >> Thanks for responding: >> >> Yes the directory exists >> >> Permissions: >> [root etc]# ls -la /var/run/clamav >> total 16 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 clam clam 4096 Apr 29 14:39 . >> drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 4096 Jun 26 14:40 .. >> >> Okay. Now I see what happened. The owner and group should be set to clamav. >> And now it works. Thank you. I knew it was something simple. >> >> This makes sense. After a yum update clam sets the log file owner to >> clam:clam instead of clamav:clamav and it must also change the user name >> which causes the permissions error. How can I get amavisd, spamassassin, and >> clam to play nicely with Yum Update? > That's a question for the CentOS-5 maintainers. I suppose you could > run clamd under the clam userid instead of under clamav. But there > might be good reasons not to do that, or it might cause other problems. > > Alan Stern > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml -- Cheers Jason Haar Corporate Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
