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Hello, hope you are doing well. when I checked my systemctl log today, I found my clamav-freshclam.service failed to start. I've tried this wiki page and this one.
To give you a bit of context, these are my output for
systemctl status clamav-freshclam.service
clamav-freshclam.service - ClamAV virus database updater
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamav-freshclam.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2024-01-25 18:26:22 MST; 11min ago
Duration: 11ms
Docs: man:freshclam(1)
man:freshclam.conf(5)
https://docs.clamav.net/
Process: 3223 ExecStart=/usr/bin/freshclam -d --foreground=true (code=exited, status=9)
Main PID: 3223 (code=exited, status=9)
CPU: 11ms
Jan 25 18:26:22 jarchie systemd[1]: Started ClamAV virus database updater.
Jan 25 18:26:22 jarchie freshclam[3223]: ERROR: lchown to user 'clamav' failed on
Jan 25 18:26:22 jarchie freshclam[3223]: log file '/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log'.
Jan 25 18:26:22 jarchie freshclam[3223]: Error was 'No such file or directory'
Jan 25 18:26:22 jarchie freshclam[3223]: WARNING: lchown to user 'clamav' failed on log file '/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log'. Error was 'No such file or directory'
Jan 25 18:26:22 jarchie freshclam[3223]: ERROR: Failed to switch to clamav user.
Jan 25 18:26:22 jarchie systemd[1]: clamav-freshclam.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=9/n/a
Jan 25 18:26:22 jarchie systemd[1]: clamav-freshclam.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
It seemed to me that the freshclam.log was missing. So I went into the
/var/log/clamav
Here are the files in this folder.
. .. clamd.log
Thank you in advance if you could help me
Last edited by jomo_G (2024-01-26 04:02:43)
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Issue resolved!
Solution: I went into
/var/log/clamav
and created an empty file named "freshclam.log"
Last edited by jomo_G (2024-01-26 02:16:18)
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Thank you Edmonton,
Your answer is perfectly right.
Essentially it's necessary to create freshclam.log and chown to clamav:clamav
sudo touch /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log && chown clamav:clamav
thank you
Last edited by mitvix (2024-03-22 12:39:06)
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