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. > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >Mike McCandless > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >_______________________________________________ > >http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
