>On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 at 17:04:52 +0200, Jona Tallieu (T & T n.v.) wrote: >> >* Jona Tallieu (T & T n.v.) <Junk <at> tnt.be>: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I just upgraded from latest stable 0.75.1 to the final 0.80. >> >> >> >> Now, when freshclam starts, I get this in the freshclam logfile: >> >> >> >> ERROR: Can't save PID to file /var/clamav/freshclam.pid: Permission >>denied >> >> >> >> The option in freshclam.conf has been disabled (default): >> >> #PidFile /var/run/freshclam.pid >> > >> >The default value is being used: /var/run/freshclam.pid != >> >/var/clamav/freshclam.pid ! >> >> I tried activating the save PID file with the value >>/var/clamav/freshclam.pid >> but I get the same error. >> >> Now also, after a freshclam update, I get following error >> >> ERROR: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through >> /var/clamav/clamd.sock >> >> So it seems freshclam can not access anything in /var/clamav/. >> >> The permissions for /var/clamav/ are: >> >> drw-r--r-- 4 lp lp 136 18 Oct 10:49 clamav >> >> And inside are: >> >> -rw-rw---- 1 root lp 4 18 Oct 10:39 clamd.pid >> srwxrwxrwx 1 root lp 0 18 Oct 10:39 clamd.sock >> > >Why is /var/clamav (and files there) owned by "lp" (i.e. print) user >and group??
I don't know why, I just followed the OSX instructions included with ClamAV: sudo mkdir /var/clamav sudo chown clamav:clamav /var/clamav sudo chmod 0644 /var/clamav It seems that chmod 755 /var/clamav solved it, I'll double check when there's a database update... Thanks! J. _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
