On Monday 21 November 2011 19:52:37 Anne Wilson wrote: > Am 21.11.2011 20:45, schrieb Anne Wilson: > > On Monday 21 November 2011 19:27:56 Anne Wilson wrote: > >> Am 21.11.2011 20:09, schrieb Anne Wilson: > >>> On Monday 21 November 2011 18:39:05 Anne Wilson wrote: > >>>> Am 21.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Anne Wilson: > >>>>> On my server, running CentOS 6, I've started getting messages like > >>>>> > >>>>> No updates detected in the log for the freshclam daemon (the > >>>>> ClamAV update process). If the freshclam daemon is not running, > >>>>> you may need to restart it. Other options: > >>>>> etc... > >>>>> > >>>>> and > >>>>> > >>>>> /etc/cron.daily/freshclam: > >>>>> > >>>>> ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = > >>>>> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log). > >>>>> ERROR: Can't open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check > >>>>> permissions!). > >>>>> > >>>>> This began after an update, and I've changed nothing in the configs. > >>>>> Freshclam ran without problems before the update, but I'm struggling > >>>>> to sort this out. > >>>>> > >>>>> First, then, can you tell me what permissions freshclam.log should > >>>>> have? Currently it is owned clamav:clamav with rw access for clamav. > >>>>> I read that freshclam is launched by root, but then drops to an > >>>>> unprivileged user - is clamav that user? > >>>>> > >>>>> What other checks should I be making? > >>>> > >>>> Hallo Anne > >>>> > >>>> have you checked the ACLs for the named files as well? what does the > >>>> directory permission say? Is there another process blocking/locking > >>>> the logfile (check with lsof)? > >>> > >>> Which files, Martin? > >> > >> Sorry I was not precise: check ACL of the log files. > > > > You mean > > > > ls -l /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log > > -rw-r--r--+ 1 clamav clamav 0 Nov 13 03:34 /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log > > ? > > Not entirely. Check ACL (getfacl or similar program). The + sign > indicates that there is an aditional ACL set for this file. At least my > log files does not have extra ACLs set. > If this means what I think it means, it explains the problem - getfacl /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: var/log/clamav/freshclam.log # owner: clamav # group: clamav user::rw- user:anne:rwx #effective:r-- group::rw- #effective:r-- mask::r-- other::r-- > Try to remove the file as well (or move it to another place). > If it's running as anne, is there any reason why the logfile can't be in anne's tree? > and run 'lsof | grep freshclam' to see if any other program is locking > the file. > Nothing there. Anne _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org