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Prototype

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Registered: 2011-05-30

Posts: 28

freshclam unable to make temp dir

I'm unable to use freshclam

# freshclam
ERROR: Can't create temporary directory /var/lib/clamav/clamav-b77592d09b783b4ab2a03485685defb0.tmp
Hint: The database directory must be writable for UID 64 or GID 64

I've done

chmod /var/lib/clamav 64:64 && chmod 755 /var/lib/clamav

I've also deleted and recreated the dir and ran

freshclam -v 

With the same error, I've even removed clamav

Any idea on how to fix this?

Thanks

ondoho

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Registered: 2013-04-30

Posts: 692

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Re: freshclam unable to make temp dir

shouldn't you be running freshclam as root?

HiImTye

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From: Halifax, NS, Canada

Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 1,072

Re: freshclam unable to make temp dir

chmod /var/lib/clamav 64:64

this didn't spit out an error?

Prototype

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Registered: 2011-05-30

Posts: 28

Re: freshclam unable to make temp dir

this didn't spit out an error?

My bad I meant chown 64:64

The wiki says that should fix the permission issue but I'm still being plagued by it

EDIT:
ondoho I guess you were right I did

#freshclam --user=root

And it worked, but I've never had to do this before in the past, and the clamav user owns the dir so....

Last edited by Prototype (2014-05-18 21:04:34)

ondoho

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Re: freshclam unable to make temp dir

so is this solved now?

Prototype

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Registered: 2011-05-30

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Re: freshclam unable to make temp dir

No, shouldn't I be able to run freshclam as clamav? Clamav owns the folder so why can't it write to it? In the past I didn't have to change user to root, and in the wiki it doesn't say to change the user to root in the config file.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,196

Re: freshclam unable to make temp dir

As a sanity check, please post the output of :
whoami
groups
and
ls -ld /var/lib/clamav

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Prototype

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Registered: 2011-05-30

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Re: freshclam unable to make temp dir

# whoami
root
# groups
root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel log
# ls -ld /var/lib/clamav/
drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 May 28 14:42 /var/lib/clamav/

KICT

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Registered: 2017-10-10

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Re: freshclam unable to make temp dir

Hi,

Look like this question is still unanswered.

I believe that it is related to SELinux. Check your logs.

Thanks.

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 12,403

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Re: freshclam unable to make temp dir

Thank you for trying to help, but please do not necrobump. It is unlikely that this user is still having the same problem three and a half years later.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

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