Sorry for the delay. I haven’t had time to look at it recently, however as for the user, you can specify the user yourself when you run the script. You could make it root, or your own user or anything else.

I think recent Fedora releases can still run non systemd init script (systemd being the replacement for sysv). Does it not work at all on recent Fedora systems?

-c

I posted this in Fedora Forum, before I found a link to this entry in your blog. Sorry to keep bugging you about this, but my main question relates to systemd – I am really unsure as to how to get clamd working with systemd.

I am looking for a simple way to get clamd working and, more importantly, to get it working properly. Each time I install it I slog through all the steps that I think are required and still manage to get something wrong or leave something out.

This script seems like the answer to my dreams and indeed I used it quite successfully on F14 and F15.

I have recently installed F17 however and I am a little nervous about using the current (VERSION=0.4 ?) version of the script.

Two things worry me:

1) In the /usr/share/doc/clamav-server-0.97.5/README doc it says: “NEVER use ‘clamav’ as the user since he can modify the database.” yet the script uses clamav as the user; and

2) Since F16 systemd has been the default system and service manager and there is a systemd service file (which I don’t understand!) provided with the F17 yum clamav-server package. How hard would it be to modify the script to make it systemd compliant?

Answers to this, or any other suggestions – or simple walk-through guides (relevant for F17) would be much appreciated…

Thanks

Mark

p.s.

I realise now that the question about the username is irrelevant because your script allows for a username to be passed to it. Sorry…

[root@test07 ~]# systemctl status clamd.clamav.service
clamd.clamav.service – SYSV: The clamd server running for clamav
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd.clamav)
Active: active (exited) since Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:08:07 +0100; 1min 36s ago
Process: 1023 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd.clamav start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/clamd.clamav.service

Getting this on some real\virt F16 boxes.
User is clamav,
update user is clamupdate

snipped from logwatch:
Database updated (2333889 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: 194.47.250.218)
connect(): Connection refused
ERROR: NotifyClamd: Can’t connect to clamd on 127.0.0.1:3310

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 6 Nov 3 02:29 /var/run -> ../run
there is no clamav\clamd\freshclam in /var/run (/run)
Do I need to specificall uncomment relevant *.pid lines, and if yes, what permissions. chmod 660 ?

-c

Cheers,
-c