Running clamd as Root?

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Julian Field wrote:
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> Nothing too awful. I run sendmail on my MailScanners and run everything 
> as root on them.
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The digital equivalent of "going commando" :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_commando
> Paul Hutchings wrote:
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>> I appreciate this isn't strictly a MailScanner issue, but as this box is
>> dedicated to Postfix/MailScanner I thought I'd ask here.
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>> 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.
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>> I've done this and it appears to be working, and appears to be an order
>> of magnitude quicker than using "clamav".
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>> I'd appreciate a sanity check on whether there is any harm in doing
>> this?
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>> I've checked and clams is only listening on port 3310 on 127.0.0.1
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>> TIA
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> Jules
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