VirusScan Enterprise for Linux records a message related to the nails service in syslog/messages after each reboot

Technical Articles ID: KB88509
Last Modified: 1/26/2017

Environment

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux 2.0.3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x

Problem

You see the following message related to the nails service in the syslog/messages log file on each reboot:

Jan 10 14:32:01 vm178 systemd: Configuration file /usr/lib/systemd/system/nails.service is marked world-inaccessible. This has no effect as configuration data is accessible via APIs without restrictions. Proceeding anyway.

Solution

These messages are benign and do not affect product functionality; you can safely ignore them. This issue will be resolved in a future version of VirusScan Enterprise for Linux.

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Workaround

If you want to suppress these messages in the log, switch to the root user account and use the following command to change the permission mode for the configuration file:

# chmod 644 /usr/lib/systemd/system/nails.service

This addresses the cause of the logged errors, and persists through system reboots.

Affected Products

Known Issue/Product Defect
VirusScan Enterprise for Linux 2.0.x

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