ClamAV autoupdate fails

[Kevin Spicer]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:39, Frank wrote:
> >File permissions?  IIRC freshclam drops its privileges to the clamav
> >user if run as root
>
>
> That seems to be the problem. However I have no idea what permission is
> missing ? Any idea where clamav tries to create this file ?
>
No, but I'd guess its in whatever $TMPDIR is set to, which for root is
quite likely to be /root/tmp.  Try...

export TMPDIR=/tmp
freshclam






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