[Wylug-help] ClamAV problems

John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Tue Jan 10 12:24:50 UTC 2012


>[root at borg2 ~]# freshclam
>ERROR: Can't open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check
>permissions!).
>ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile =
>/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).

You /may/ be better running /etc/cron.daily/freshclam rather than freshclam
directly, since this creates a blank log file if necessary and does the
necessary chown to clam.clam.

jh



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