Thank you. I will just go ahead and put it in ~/Library/Logs
> On Dec 17, 2019, at 05:26, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) <micas...@cisco.com> wrote: > > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > > _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
