Jim Maul said: > Matt Fretwell wrote: >> Jim Maul wrote: >> >> >>>>Call me old fashioned, but this is something I like to deal with >>>>myself. There's still a roll for the thinking admin. >> >> >> >>>No, dont get me wrong here, im not saying clamav should "predict" >>>anything. Nor should it have to deal with misconfigured software. This >>>is of course left up to the admin. However, it seems that it *creates* >>>the logfile owned by root. And that..well..just isnt right. >> >> >> >> Just to test, as an ordinary user, run: >> >> touch /var/log/test.log >> >> Now why does it create the logfile as root? >> > > While i get your point, it is irrelevant because it should not log in > /var/log/ directly. It should log in /var/log/clamav/
It will log where ever the clamd.conf file says it will log - permissions permitting. There is no concept of "should". dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
