error ClamAV daemon

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jun 8 07:21:02 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 09:09 +0200, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> When I boot I see this message: "ClamAV daemon: ERROR: can't open 
> /var/log/clamav/clamlog in append mode. Check permissions. ERROR: 
> problem with internal logger. Please check permissions of 
> /var/log/clamav/clamlog."
> I checked the permissions (600) and set them to 666 to be sure that the 
> file is writable for the owner clamav. (Shouldn't be necessary though).
> Still I can't start clamd.
> In clamav.conf the option LogFileUnlock is uncommented.
> I don't understand why I keep having this error.
> Any suggestion is wellcome.

Do you have SELinux enabled, and if so, are there any messages with
"avc:  denied" in /var/log/messages or /var/log/audit/audit.log?

Paul.




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