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Re: [Clamav-users] Spontaneous failure to read DB dir

From: Moray Henderson (ICT) <Moray.Henderson_at_nospam>
Date: Wed Jul 01 2009 - 12:30:09 GMT
To: "ClamAV users ML" <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>

>From: Kris Deugau [mailto:kdeugau@vianet.ca]
>Seems this was a SELinux issue after all. *nrgh* What's worse, I
>discovered a number of other things from the upstream CentOS repos that
>*also* seem to have bad SELinux permissions (or more likely, my local
>procedures and policies conflict with the standard permissions), so I've
>just set it to permissive (again - as I must have done shortly after
>doing the current OS (re)install) and made sure that will persist across
>reboots.

One of the many SELinux changes between CentOS 4 and 5 was the inclusion of a clam policy, which expects the clam files to be in /var/lib/clamav instead of /var/clamav.

Moray.
"To err is human.  To purr, feline"

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