Clamd not starting - log permissions

Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by Sircerb, May 16, 2009.

  1. Sircerb

    Sircerb New Member

    I am a reader of this forum for along time, now registered to make this post.
    Sorry for this, but I have googled over and over.

    /etc/init.d/clamd start

    returns

    Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: ERROR: Can't open /var/log/clamav/clamd.log in append mode (check permissions!).
    ERROR: Can't initialize the internal logger

    clamd.conf settings
    User clamav
    AllowSupplementaryGroups yes

    ls -la /var/log/clamav/
    drw-rw---- 2 clamav clamav 4096 May 16 23:31 .
    drwxr-x--- 15 root root 4096 May 16 04:03 ..
    -rw-rw---- 1 clamav clamav 0 May 15 18:11 clamd.log
    -rw-rw---- 1 clamav clamav 42691 May 8 16:43 clamd.log.1
    -rw-rw---- 1 clamav clamav 11836 May 3 04:03 clamd.log.2
    -rw-rw---- 1 clamav clamav 0 May 10 04:02 freshclam.log
    -rw-rw---- 1 clamav clamav 1496 May 6 04:02 freshclam.log.1
    -rw-rw---- 1 clamav clamav 13246 May 8 04:53 freshclam.log.2

    I don't know what to do.... postfix mail queue wil explode soon...
    Help?
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    What's in /etc/init.d/clamd?
     

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