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Bug#295687: base-config: late_command run with TMPDIR not world-writable



severity 295687 serious
thanks

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Starting ClamAV daemon: LibClamAV Error: cli_cvdload(): Can't create temporary directory /tmp/base-config.1141/clamav-c72....
> [...]
> invoke-rc.d: initscript clamav-daemon action "start" failed.
> 
> Although clamav fails to tell why it can't create that directory, I'm pretty
> 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.

-- 
see shy jo

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