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Posted: **Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:56 pm**

Hi,

I regularly get the following error messages for clamav

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!).

When I check the permission of the log dir:

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/var/log/clamav/
total 1300
-rw-r----- 1 root   root         0 Jul 14 03:10 clamd.log
-rw-r----- 1 root   root        20 Jun 16 03:10 clamd.log-20130623.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root   root        20 Jun 23 03:10 clamd.log-20130630.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav      20 Jul  6 15:00 clamd.log-20130707.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root   root        20 Jul  7 03:19 clamd.log-20130714.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root   root         0 Jul 14 03:10 freshclam.log
-rw-r----- 1 root   root        20 Jun 16 03:10 freshclam.log-20130623.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root   root        20 Jun 23 03:10 freshclam.log-20130630.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root   root       523 Jul  6 14:59 freshclam.log-20130707.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root   root        20 Jul  7 03:19 freshclam.log-20130714.gz

Somehow when archiving the the fileowner get set to root and "breaks" the log files.

Anyone knows why?

Posted: **Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:59 pm**

I can change the owner with chown to clamav.
It then works until the next time when the archiving happens.

Posted: **Fri Jul 19, 2013 6:30 pm**

It is probably logrotate that is not correctly configured.

In the config file /etc/logrotate.conf
You should have section like this:

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/var/log/clamav {
    monthly
    rotate 5
    compress
    create 0600 clamav clamav
}

You can run logrotate with:

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logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf

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Log files permissions always changed to root

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