Running clamd as Root?

[Julian Field]

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Nothing too awful. I run sendmail on my MailScanners and run everything 
as root on them.

Paul Hutchings wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   

Jules

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