Freshclam problems

[Martin (KDE)]

Am 21.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Anne Wilson:
> On my server, running CentOS 6, I've started getting messages like
> 
>  No updates detected in the log for the freshclam daemon (the
>  ClamAV update process).  If the freshclam daemon is not running,
>  you may need to restart it.  Other options:
>  etc...
> 
> and
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/freshclam:
> 
> ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = 
> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
> ERROR: Can't open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check 
> permissions!).
> 
> This began after an update, and I've changed nothing in the configs.  Freshclam 
> ran without problems before the update, but I'm struggling to sort this out.
> 
> First, then, can you tell me what permissions freshclam.log should have?  
> Currently it is owned clamav:clamav with rw access for clamav.  I read that 
> freshclam is launched by root, but then drops to an unprivileged user - is 
> clamav that user?
> 
> What other checks should I be making?

Hallo Anne

have you checked the ACLs for the named files as well? what does the
directory permission say? Is there another process blocking/locking the
logfile (check with lsof)?

Regards

Martin

> 
> Anne
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