https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=300019 Summary: clamd fails silently at startup when /dev/null is not writeable Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: max@novell.com ReportedBy: suse-beta@cboltz.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- I have found an interesting bug in clamd ;-) root@karawane:/home/cb> rcclamd start Starting Clam AntiVirus daemon done root@karawane:/home/cb> rcclamd status Checking for Clam AntiVirus daemon unused Nothing in the logs. To make the story short, here's the reproducer: chmod 644 /dev/null rcclamd start # results in "done" rcclamd status # results in "unused" I had to use strace to find out what the problem was - and this is not fun at 3:00 AM after a failed kernel update... I don't expect that clamd works without problems in this case, but it should at least return $? != 0 ("failed") or print an error message. BTW: Don't worry about the broken /dev/null permissions - they are a bug at my hosting provider's rescue system. I'm also not sure what went wrong with the kernel update, so simply ignore it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.