On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 at 17:15:36 -0800, Robin Lynn Frank wrote: > I just stopped clamd and then tried to start it again > > Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: LibClamAV Error: cli_cvdload(): Can't create > temporary directory /root/tmp/273409760600096e > ERROR: Unable to create temporary directory. > > What might the cause of this be?
User "root" has some environent variable as TMPDIR set to /root/tmp (which is a good idea, generally). When starting clamd, privileges are dropped (as clamd is run as user clamav), so clamd can't create a directory under /root/tmp/ . Try 'unset TMPDIR' (or whatever variable is set) before starting clamd. After starting it, you can set it back, of course. -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/ | ones and zeros. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ClamAV.net/ A GPL virus scanner ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
