Ubuntu
clamav package

  1. Bug #1930393
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1930393

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote :

Hello Stephane, thanks for the report. I get the impression reading /usr/share/doc/clamav-daemon/README.Debian.gz that the software isn't generally expected to be useful without configuration. You can use the debconf interactive configuration tool with:

dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon

Which will prompt for user, group, and permissions to set on the socket among many other things. Different sites may need to allow different services to connect to the daemon via Unix sockets or via TCP sockets etc.

I believe this is "working as intended" even if it does strike me as silly for the 'please scan this file' socket to be the same as the 'please shut down' socket. (I'm even a bit surprised about that, since signals can do this job just fine, no matter how icky they are..)

I think we should open the bug report up to allow others to suggest the best way to use clamav in different environments.

Thanks