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Date:      Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:16:43 +0200
From:      tuexen@freebsd.org
To:        FreeBSD User <freebsd@walstatt-de.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, yasu@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: security/clamav: /ar/run on TMPFS renders the port broken by design
Message-ID:  <F50DBD11-4438-46DA-9C9D-61CA5839395C@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20220827083042.73e7f439@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de>
References:  <20220827083042.73e7f439@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de>

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> On 27. Aug 2022, at 08:30, FreeBSD User <freebsd@walstatt-de.de> =
wrote:
>=20
> Hello,
>=20
> I'm referencing to Bug 259699 [2] and Bug 259585 [1].
>=20
> Port security/clamav is without doubt for many of FreeBSD users an =
important piece of security
> software so I assume a widespread usage.
>=20
> It is also a not uncommon use case to use NanoBSD or any kind of =
low-memory-footprint
> installation schemes in which /var/run - amongst other system folders =
- are created at boot
> time as TMPFS and highly volatile.
>=20
> In our case, the boxes running a small security appliance based upon =
FreeBSD is rebooted every
> 24 hours and so /var/run is vanishing.
Why are you rebooting every 24 hours?

Best regards
Michael
>=20
> To make the long story short:
>=20
> The solution for this problem would be a check for existence and take =
action addendum in
> precmd() routine of the rc-script as sketched in Bug 259699.
> The maintainer rejects such a workaround by arguing this would violate =
POLA (see comment 4 in
> PR 259699 [2]. The maintainer's argument regaring to mtree's files are =
sound to me.
>=20
> The question is: how can this issue be solved?
>=20
> It is really hard to always chenge our local repository and patch =
whenever clamav has been
> patched and modified for what reason ever.
>=20
> Tahanks for reading,
>=20
> kind regards
>=20
> O. Hartmann
>=20
> [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D259585
> [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D259699
>=20
>=20
> --=20
> O. Hartmann
>=20




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