This one time, at band camp, KaalH! said:
> Stephen Gran a écrit :
> >On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:24:49AM +0200, KaalH! said:
> >>Stephen Gran a écrit :
> >>>This one time, at band camp, KaalH! said:
> >>>
> >>>>please apply this patch to add stderr loggging. This is for 
> >>>>multilog/svlogd.
> >>>>It allows "LogFile stderr" configuration option
> >>>>
> >>>Does
> >>>LogFile /dev/stderr 
> >>>not work for you?
> >>>
> >>no
> >
> >However:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep LogFile /etc/clamav/clamd.conf
> >LogFile /dev/stderr
> >LogFileUnlock
> >LogFileMaxSize 0
> >
> hoho, there's no "start-stop-daemon -u clamav"  and/or
> "start-stop-daemon -c clamav"   in /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon, but clamd
> runs as clamav user :o
> 
> clamd seems to turn himself as clamav user, so it needs to be lanched as
> root and not as clamav like i made it with chpst.
> Is this correct ?
> 
> if so, not using chpst will solve my problem.
> I hope there's no security issue doing this ...

Yes - clamd will drop priviledges properly shortly before beginning to
accept connections.  It reads it's configuration file to find out what
user to run as.

So is this considered resolved, or does something need to be done?
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