ClamAV autoupdate fails

[Kevin Spicer]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 15:46, Frank wrote:
> Autoupdate for ClamAV fails.
> When calling freshclam directly from the shell I got
> the following messages:
>
> ClamAV update process started at Mon Sep 20 16:43:50 2004
> Reading CVD header (main.cvd): OK
> ERROR: Can't open new file ./clamav-6b870e778763be98 to write
> open: Permission denied
> ERROR: Can't download main.cvd from 212.162.12.159
>
> Any idea what could be wrong ?
File permissions?  IIRC freshclam drops its privileges to the clamav
user if run as root




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