Running clamd as Root?

[Paul Hutchings]

I appreciate this isn't strictly a MailScanner issue, but as this box is
dedicated to Postfix/MailScanner I thought I'd ask here.

I'd been having awful trouble getting MailScanner to work with clamd
with Postfix as my MTA.  Doubtless due to permissions and my lack of
understanding of how they work in fine detail on *nix.

One suggestion (the simplest) was to simply run clamd as root.

I've done this and it appears to be working, and appears to be an order
of magnitude quicker than using "clamav".

I'd appreciate a sanity check on whether there is any harm in doing
this?

I've checked and clams is only listening on port 3310 on 127.0.0.1

TIA


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