If your clamav instance is installed to /opt/local, then your freshclam.conf is
probably in /opt/local/etc/freshclam.conf
Edit the freshclam.conf file and set the "UpdateLogFile" option to a filepath
that your user is allowed to write to.
I haven't had this particular issue on my Catalina test machine or personal
laptop, but I also haven't done very thorough tests to investigate if we need
to change default options or add logic to request permissions in macOS
Catalina. It's possible that we may need to make some adjustments as Apple
continues to try to lockdown directory access in macOS.
Micah
On 12/16/19, 4:45 PM, "clamav-users on behalf of Michael Newman via
clamav-users" <clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net on behalf of
clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
After updating to MacOS Catalina I get the following errors when running
freshclaim:
ERROR: Can't open /private/var/log/freshclam.log in append mode (check
permissions!).
ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile =
/private/var/log/freshclam.log).
ERROR: initialize: libfreshclam init failed.
ERROR: Initialization error!
But, there is no such file as: /private/var/log/freshclam.log
I’m running this from a shell script. Here’s the command I’m using:
/opt/local/bin/freshclam -v --stdout >>$log
Where log is just ~/Library/Logs/clam.log
How do I fix this?
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