Clam update log location

[Matt Hayes]

Steve Campbell wrote:
> I'm not sure if I have some old leftovers from an RPM install or maybe a 
> source install or whatever, but I have a couple of logrotate files 
> (clamd and freshclam). They apparently don't do anything now as the 
> files they rotate don't exist . The freshclam script might be handy 
> though. It points to a file in /var/log/ but the  
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate that I have makes a different 
> file name in /tmp.
> 
> The logrotate script also does a postrotate  "/bin/kill -HUP `cat 
> /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid", which might or might not matter  for the 
> way it works now. Is there any point to making the logrotate work with 
> the autoupdate in Mailscanner? The /tmp/ClamAV.update.log file can get 
> pretty large.
> 
> Thanks for ideas.
> 
> Steve Campbell
> campbell at cnpapers.com
> Charleston Newspapers
> 

Personally, I manually edit that log location to be in my 
/var/log/clamav folder and that way logrotate still rotates the proper 
log out without my intervention.

-Matt