Hi there, On Sun, 23 Jan 2022, Dorian ROSSE via clamav-users wrote:
i have do the command line following for repair freshclam ... ... chown root:root /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log ... root@ubuntu-ThinkPad-X250:~# chmod 755 /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log root@ubuntu-ThinkPad-X250:~# freshclam
Why did you think you needed to change the ownership and permissions? Please do not do things like this unless you know what you are doing, an installation by the package manager should set everything up for you without any need for you to tinker with permissions. You didn't repair anything. You probably broke things. In any case you should not use the '755' mode for a log file because a log file is not intended to be executable; mode '644' would be more appropriate, perhaps '640' or even '600' if you want to restrict who can read it. But in general I recommend you let the people who maintain the ClamAV packages for your distribution set things up. They probably have at least a reasonable explanation for doing what they do. See the 'man' pages for chmod and chown for more information.
... 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). ERROR: initialize: libfreshclam init failed. ERROR: Initialization error!'''
This *probably* means that only root is be able to write to the file, and I guess that you are not running freshclam as root. In any case, like any other utility which does not *need* to be run as root, you should not run freshclam as root (but you should make sure that it can write the files which it needs to write, e.g. its log files). If you can find the user name which is used to run freshclam on your system, and chown the freshclam.log file so that user is the owner, then (assuming that you haven't done any other damage) when freshclam runs it should be able to write to the log. The ClamAV database files are probably owned by the same user, what user is that? Exactly how did you install ClamAV? Can you cut-n-paste the output of the command clamconf -n so that we can see your configuration? Do you have something like SELinux on your system? How much memory does your laptop have? -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
