[Wylug-help] ClamAV problems

[Anne Wilson]

On 10/01/12 14:12, John Hodrien wrote:
> 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?
> 
Correct

> Are you out of disk space or inodes on /var/lib/clamav?
> 
No - nowhere near

> Does that directory exist?  ls -ld /var/lib/clamav
> 
Yes, it contains all the database files, all owned by clam.

ls -ld /var/lib/clamav
drwxr-xr-x 2 clam clam 4096 Jan 10 09:43 /var/lib/clamav

Anne
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