init.d bug in clamav-milter 0.90.2-0ubuntu1

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 01 August 2007 11:26, Matt "Cyber Dog" LaPlante wrote:
> I've got clamav-milter 0.90.2-0ubuntu1 installed.  There is a bug in the
> /etc/init.d/clamav-milter script around like 99:
>
> kill -9 -"$PID"
>
> The problem appears to be that the pid file
> (/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.pid) also begins with a dash (eg -7943), so
> the kill line actually winds up trying to
>
> Kill -9 -"-7943", which fails.  Removing the excess dash from the init
> script fixes things.
>
Thanks for letting us know.

If you still have 0.90.2-0ubuntu1 installed, you probably don't have the 
repository for Universe security updates installed as it's up to 
0.90.2-0ubuntu1.3 in Feisty Security.

Please file a bug on Launchpad against clamav and I'll have a look.

Scott K