Comment 4 for bug 13034

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:45:31 -0500
From: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
To: Peter Eisentraut <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#295687: base-config: late_command run with TMPDIR not world-writable

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severity 295687 serious
thanks

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Starting ClamAV daemon: LibClamAV Error: cli_cvdload(): Can't create temp=
orary directory /tmp/base-config.1141/clamav-c72....
> [...]
> invoke-rc.d: initscript clamav-daemon action "start" failed.
>=20
> Although clamav fails to tell why it can't create that directory, I'm pre=
tty
> sure it is because /tmp/base-config.1141 has mode 0755, not 1777 like /tmp
> normally has. ClamAV runs as its own user, so it can't access the TMPDIR,
> where it tries to create its temporary directory.

There's no reason for base-config to need to set TMPDIR, and it seems
that this could break task installation and aptitude runs as well as
preseeded commands, so I consider this bug RC.

--=20
see shy jo

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