[Wylug-help] ClamAV problems

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On 10/01/12 12:24, John Hodrien wrote:
>>> [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.
>>
> /etc/cron.daily/freshclam
> ERROR: Can't create temporary directory
> /var/lib/clamav/clamav-aba20e951dc04db5f6feb500850eb581
> ERROR: Can't create temporary directory
> /var/lib/clamav/clamav-114d2bdf324a4a34727c9ef7fc9c2483

Just to double check, you're running that as root right?

Are you out of disk space or inodes on /var/lib/clamav?

Does that directory exist?  ls -ld /var/lib/clamav

jh