well. try to switch to user clamav:

su - clamav -s /bin/bash and try to start clamd in commandline.

Eero

On Sat 24. Apr 2021 at 16.47, Keith Graber <keith.gra...@lsssd.org> wrote:

> I'm running ClamAV as user 'clamav' who owns /var/log/clamav
>
> drwxr-xr-x  2 clamav    clamav             4096 Apr 18 00:00 clamav
>
> the files inside are:
>
> root@<redacted>:/var/log/clamav# ls -l
> total 420
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm     11978 Apr 23 11:34 clamav.log
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm     11718 Apr 18 00:00 clamav.log.1
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      1302 Feb 14 00:00 clamav.log.10.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      1215 Feb  7 00:00 clamav.log.11.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      1989 Jan 31 00:00 clamav.log.12.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      1837 Apr 11 00:00 clamav.log.2.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      1134 Apr  4 00:00 clamav.log.3.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      3376 Mar 28 00:00 clamav.log.4.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      1033 Mar 21 00:00 clamav.log.5.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      2149 Mar 14 00:00 clamav.log.6.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      1096 Mar  7 00:00 clamav.log.7.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      1064 Feb 28 00:00 clamav.log.8.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      1058 Feb 21 00:00 clamav.log.9.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav clamav 118698 Apr 24 08:14 freshclam.log
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm    141909 Apr 18 00:00 freshclam.log.1
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      5047 Feb 14 00:00 freshclam.log.10.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      5234 Feb  7 00:00 freshclam.log.11.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      5543 Jan 31 00:00 freshclam.log.12.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      6334 Apr 11 00:00 freshclam.log.2.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      5066 Apr  4 00:00 freshclam.log.3.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      5268 Mar 28 00:00 freshclam.log.4.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      5046 Mar 21 00:00 freshclam.log.5.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      5237 Mar 14 00:00 freshclam.log.6.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      5072 Mar  7 00:00 freshclam.log.7.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      5071 Feb 28 00:00 freshclam.log.8.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 clamav adm      5074 Feb 21 00:00 freshclam.log.9.gz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Micah Snyder (micasnyd) <micas...@cisco.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2021 3:48 PM
> To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Can't start clamd - lchown to user failed
>
> lchown isn't a program, it's a C function provided by `unistd.h`. The
> error likely has to do with the permissions of the /var/log/clamav
> directory (if it exists), and which user the program is running as.
>
> -Micah
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: clamav-users <clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net> On Behalf
> > Of Keith Graber
> > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2021 1:16 PM
> > To: 'clamav-users@lists.clamav.net' <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
> > Subject: [clamav-users] Can't start clamd - lchown to user failed
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm running a Ubuntu 20.04 server.  I've had ClamAV installed and
> > running with on-access successfully.
> >
> > I did an apt upgrade that included ClamAV v0.103.2 and since then I
> > can't get clamd to start.
> >
> > The error is: ERROR: lchown to user 'clamav' failed on log file
> > '/var/log/clamav/clamav.log'. Error was 'Operation not permitted'
> >
> > lchown is not installed on my system and I'm not finding it in the
> > Ubuntu software repository.  Searching the web led me to a lchown man
> > page that states this is for changing syslinks, but
> > /var/log/clamav/clamav.log is not a syslink'd file.
> >
> > Is lchown a new requirement for v0.103.2?
> >
> > How can I get clamd working again?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Keith Graber
> >
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