Hi Robert, On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Robert Wyatt wrote:
> On 10.5 using the unstable tree and everything being current I've been > getting a message in Terminal.app when I run freshclam: > ERROR: Can't open mirrors.dat for writing I guess you are running freshclam as your normal user. I would recommend to use 'sudo freshclam', i.e. use root. > I compared permissions on > -rw------- /sw/var/db/clamav/mirrors.dat > -rw-rw-r-- /usr/local/clamXav/share/clamav/mirrors.dat > > and updated the fink version with: > sudo chmod 644 /sw/var/db/clamav/mirrors.dat I think that wont help, as the normal user still cannot write to it. (It should be chmod 664 if you want the same permissions.) However, allowing the group to write to the mirrors.dat is in principle a security risk. But it depends how paranoid you want to be... Remi > I think I have to wait until tomorrow to do another freshclam to see > if > I get the same error. That is, I've tried freshclam again and do not > see > the error, but then the database is not updated (because it already > was > today) so I don't know if there is an attempt made to update > mirrors.dat. > > I suppose this is a note more than a question, but if you see a > problem > with what I've done please let me know. > > --Robert > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on my disk somewhere. ********************************************************************* Remigius K. Mommsen e-mail: [email protected] Fermilab URL: http://cern.ch/mommsen CERN 40 2-B06 voice: +41 22 767 1621 CH-1211 Genève 23 mobile: +41 78 798 2535 Switzerland skype: remi.mommsen ********************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
