Re: setting up clamav-freshclam

["David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net>]

Ben A'Lee wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 18:32:18, David A. Cobb wrote:
>  
>
> > Starting ClamAV virus database updater: ERROR: Can't open
> > /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check permissions!).
> > ERROR: Problem with internal logger.
> > invoke-rc.d: initscript clamav-freshclam, action "start" failed.
> > dpkg: error processing clamav-freshclam (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > </blockquote>
> >
> > SO: what in blazes does it need to be???
> >
> >    
>
> Have you tried it with 777 (rwxrwxrwx) permissions?  I'm guessing the logfile
> isn't owned by the user or group of ClamAV.
>
> -Ben
>
>  
Makes perfectly good sense.  Sad to say, it doesn't help.
the log is owned by clamav:adm and set 0777, the parent dir
"/var/log/clamav" is set 1777.
(Also tried at 0777).


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