Re: setting up clamav-freshclam

[Paul <paula4l@access4less.net>]

David A. Cobb wrote:
> 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).

not sure, but is it possible that you don't have a user or group or both 
called clamav?  Maybe it didn't get purged and reconfigured properly. 
Should be in /etc/passwd and /etc/group?