Bug 164494 - /usr/share/clamav/freshclam-sleep broken: `hostid` doesn't work on 64 bits
Summary: /usr/share/clamav/freshclam-sleep broken: `hostid` doesn't work on 64 bits
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: clamav
Version: 4
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Enrico Scholz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-28 11:30 UTC by James Wilkinson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-07-28 12:13:26 UTC
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Description James Wilkinson 2005-07-28 11:30:22 UTC
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Description of problem:
The new clamav-update package puts a new clamav-update file in /etc/cron.d. This calls /usr/share/clamav/freshclam-sleep, a bash shellscript.

/usr/share/clamav/freshclam-sleep uses `hostid` to get a random time to sleep. On an AMD64 box:

[james@kendrick ~]$ hostid
ffffffffa8c0fa00
[james@kendrick ~]$ echo $[ 0x`hostid`]
-1463748096

Not surprisingly, sleep doesn't like sleeping for negative seconds. Even if the number was positive, that's still an awfully long time to sleep.

Maybe line 26 of /usr/share/clamav/freshclam-sleep could be changed to use $RANDOM?

Thanks.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
clamav-0.86.2-2.fc4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
[root@kendrick cron.d]# /usr/share/clamav/freshclam-sleep
sleep: invalid option -- 2
Try `sleep --help' for more information.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Enrico Scholz 2005-07-28 12:13:26 UTC
thx; should be solved in CVS

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/clamav/freshclam-sleep?root=extras&r1=1.1&r2=1.2


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