Gary,
Use: sudo freshclam when invoking from a user account and see if that
helps. --Robert

Gary K Olson wrote:
> I set up clamav on my machines.  Clamav works well from command line  
> and using ClamXav.  However, although freshclam seems to update the  
> virus database, the message it leaves in mail says:
> 
> ClamAV update process started at Tue Aug 25 05:45:01 2009
> main.cvd is up to date (version: 51, sigs: 545035, f-level: 42,  
> builder: sven)
> Downloading daily-9731.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-9732.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-9733.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-9734.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-9735.cdiff [100%]
> Downloading daily-9736.cdiff [100%]
> daily.cld updated (version: 9736, sigs: 67939, f-level: 43, builder:  
> arnaud)
> ERROR: Can't open mirrors.dat for writing
> Database updated (612974 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP:  
> 138.123.96.134)
> 
> It doesn't seem to be able to write to mirrors.dat.  Do I need to  
> write to this file, and if so what do I need to do?  I haven't changed  
> anything in freshclam.conf which is mostly turned off except for  
> these  two lines: 1. PidFile /var/run/freshclam.pid  2. DatabaseMirror  
> database.clamav.net
> 
> Gary K Olson


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