Bingo.  What an easy change.  Thanks for the quick reply.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Reidenbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ClamAV users ML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam: Can't Open /[logfile] in append Mode


> Hi Mike.  I can recreate this problem if I don't have execute
> permissions on /var/log.  If you do a "chmod o+x /var/log" I bet the
> problem will go away.
>
> Regards,
> Mark Reidenbach
>
>
> Mike McCandless wrote:
>
> >I have clamav 0.75.1 on FC2.  As root, when I run the command freshclam
(no
> >options at all), I get:
> >
> >ERROR: Can't open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode.
> >ERROR: Problem with internal logger.
> >
> >The permissions of what I would think is relevant are as follows:
> >
> >drwxrwxr-x  2 clamav clamav 4096 Oct 17 18:13 /var/log/clamav
> >-rw-r--r--  1 clamav logs 768 Oct 17 18:46 /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
> >
> >Of course, when I run the command
> ># freshclam -u root
> >it all works fine.
> >
> >I don't understand what is wrong with the permissions I've got, or if
that's
> >not it, what my problem is.
> >
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