error ClamAV daemon

Peter Lesterhuis peterlesterhuis at tiscali.nl
Thu Jun 8 17:22:39 UTC 2006


>
> When I boot I see this message: "ClamAV daemon: ERROR: can't open 
> > /var/log/clamav/clamlog in append mode. Check permissions. ERROR: 
> > problem with internal logger. Please check permissions of 
> > /var/log/clamav/clamlog."
> > I checked the permissions (600) and set them to 666 to be sure that the 
> > file is writable for the owner clamav. (Shouldn't be necessary though).
> > Still I can't start clamd.
> > In clamav.conf the option LogFileUnlock is uncommented.
> > I don't understand why I keep having this error.
> > Any suggestion is wellcome.
>   
>
> Do you have SELinux enabled, and if so, are there any messages with
> "avc:  denied" in /var/log/messages or /var/log/audit/audit.log?
>   
Yes, I have.
In /var/log/audit/audit.log I have this message:
type=AVC msg=audit(1149784852.944:133): avc:  denied  { write } for  
pid=2352 comm="freshclam" name="log" dev=tmpfs ino=6715 
scontext=system_u:system_r:freshclam_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:devlog_t:s0 tclass=sock_file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1149784852.944:133): arch=40000003 syscall=102 
success=no exit=-13 a0=3 a1=bf926000 a2=4f32aff4 a3=15 items=1 pid=2352 
auid=4294967295 uid=46 gid=46 euid=46 suid=46 fsuid=46 egid=46 sgid=46 
fsgid=46 comm="freshclam" exe="/usr/bin/freshclam"

Peter




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