That would explain why root can update, but not the clamav user. I'll try that and see what happens.
Thanks. Daniel ________________________________ Daniel A. Deitch, President * iTrain Technologies, Ltd. po box 13833 * atlanta, ga 30324-0833 * 404-876-1929 (o) 404-935-5005 (f) * www.goitrain.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Plumee Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 12:48 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject) Brian Morrison wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:24:46 -0500 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott > Plumee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Daniel A. Deitch wrote: >> >>>I have ClamAV 0.82 installed on a Verio VPSv2 FreeBSD server ... >>>works fine ... scans, cleans, deletes ... the works. >>> >>> >>> >>>My problem is with freshclam ... the problem has been occurring >>>since 0.80, 0.81, 0.82 and 0.82_1 >>> >>> >>> >>>I have the following flag in my /etc/rc.conf file: >>> >>>clamav_freshclam_flags="--config-file=/usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf >>>--checks=12 --datadir=/usr/local/share/clamav >>>--daemon-notify=/usr/local/etc/clamav.conf >>>--log=/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log" >> >>I can't say for sure, but I've got the same setup and I've always >>noticed that if I hadn't upgraded to the latest release yet, I would >>get the same error messages in the log files after a certain period of >>time. >> I assumed that the update servers were blacklisting IPs that had out >>of date versions after a certain point, as they did when they required >>you switch to the new DNS configuration options in the freshclam.conf >>file around version .81 or so. Upgrading to the latest ported version >>always got it working for me. Not much help, but that was what worked >>for me. > > > Looks to me like the OP has either an odd DNS problem or a permissions > problem somewhere. I think the upgrade advice has only worked by > coincidence. > You were correct. I have not set permissions on the /var/db/clamav directory to be writeable by the user clamav was running as. Enabled verbose logging, saw the problem, made the change, and now I'm happy as a clam. I should probably get kicked off the list for that pun. Thanks again for the help. _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
