I recently installed clamav .94 on an ubuntu box (8.04) and clamscan runs just fine, however freshclam generates the following error:
rwxrwxrwx 2 clamav 204 4096 2009-08-21 10:02 clamav r...@zambezi:/var# freshclam ClamAV update process started at Fri Aug 21 10:07:15 2009 WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Local version: 0.94.2 Recommended version: 0.95.2 DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq ERROR: getfile: Can't create new file /var/clamav/clamav-4c8bad43f85f4c58ba20de0e76a60468 in /var/clamav Hint: The database directory must be writable for UID 441 or GID 204 WARNING: Can't download main.cvd from db.us.clamav.net There's a user clamav, and /var/clamav is owned by 441:204 with write permissions. I can also su to user clamav and touch (create) new files in /var/clamav. Anyone have any ideas? _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
