Re: clamd handicraft work

[Warren Togami <wtogami redhat com>]

Kai Raven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have installed clamav & clamd successfully under FC4 from Extras but i don't
> like the whole procedure the user must execute as mentioned in the Readme
> (copy this, make this, symlink to, chmod... and so on) to run "a individual
> clamd-instance".
> Why not a default installation with the individual "clamd.fedora" instance - 
> because it is a clam(d) installation for Fedora - and full "automatism" for
> all required steps? If somebody wants a different service name, it is enough to
> explain in the Readme where to change the service name.

I used to agree with this sentiment, until Enrico explained to me that 
different users of clamd are able to mess with data of other system 
users if you rely on a single daemon.  Err... something like this, I 
don't remember exactly what the issue was.

What we need instead are clamav-something packages containing the 
/etc/rc.d/init.rd/ files, prepared for different specific uses of clamd. 
  It will be easy for others to do after someone creates the first as 
an example.

Warren Togami
wtogami redhat com