Have failed to update ClamAV program,and have recieved many such responses as below. Am newbie and have difficulty understanding the ways of the termial.
Thanks in advance for any help.

graeme@graeme-System-Product-Name:~$ freshclam -d
ERROR: Can't open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check permissions!).
ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
graeme@graeme-System-Product-Name:~$ crontab -e
no crontab for graeme - using an empty one

Select an editor. To change later, run 'select-editor'.
1. /bin/ed
2. /bin/nano <---- easiest
3. /usr/bin/vim.tiny

You have to start freshclam as root, not as unprivileged user.

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Thankyou, can you suggest where I could find a step by step discription of starting freshclam as boot. I guess that I must boot while starting up, but where do I go from there? I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, is the method the same for the whole Linus family?

You have misread my post. You have to start freshclam as root user (this has nothing to do with booting the system). On a default Ubuntu system you would run the same command as before, but prefixed with the sudo command:This will ask for your password to authenticate that you have the privileges to start an action as root. You may want to read this to get a better idea about privileged and unprivileged users on Linux/UNIX: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

I pasted in sudo freshclam -d and then my password. Is that it? The terminal offered no response after, just repeated new entry text. Is it fixed now without response?
Ignorance is not bliss.

I just checked the manpage for freshclam and it states that the -d option (start freshclam as daemon in the background) requires that you also specify the -c option with a number that determines how often you want the daemon to check per day for updates. So you should try it with a command like which will check 4 times per day for updates. The command returns no output, but you should see the freshclam daemon in the output of if it is running.

Ok have done, but where does one see the freshclam daemon output code ps aux? Obviously not in the terminal, as you stated and I observed - no responce.

If you run in the terminal you should see something like this somewhere in the output:which shows that freshclam runs.

This concerning clamav amongst other code text was displayed. No 4.

clamav 1703 0.0 13.5 393484 259720 ? Ssl 10:24 0:19 /usr/sbin/clamd
clamav 1834 0.0 0.0 47816 936 ? Ss 10:24 0:08 /usr/bin/freshc
clamav 9258 0.0 0.0 54156 1768 ? Ss 11:13 0:07 freshclam -d
clamav 9262 0.0 0.0 49952 1452 ? Ss 11:14 0:06 freshclam -d
clamav 10303 0.0 0.0 49952 1436 ? Ss 13:42 0:02 freshclam -d -c

Hi hantverkare,

Did you know that Clamtk 5.0 is out, clamtk is the gui front end for clam (terminal command is "clamscan" ; terminal to open gui is "gksudo clamtk" = run as sudo root).

>commands are in quotes, do not type in quotes in command line<

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/...tu-linux-mint/

(incase link thing messes up: u can copy/paste this)
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/...tu-linux-mint/

for Ubuntu help page:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/28245...n-ubuntu-12-10

you might want to go with the ubuntu old style before jumping into 5, also on your freshclam I would get your update B4 starting the daemon thing as that will stop alot of unnecessary warnings about out of date/old def's etc.
sudo freshclam, also if you see warnings or unwanted messages the sourceforge clam site has much more info.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...talling_ClamAV

hope that helps & good luck
JT

Hi JT,
Thanks for the tips. I'll check out those info.sites. I assume that Clamtk 5.0 is an improved version.
With lots of luck Iĺl finally get a grip on terminal knowhow.

hantverkare (translated: meaning craftsman - in Swedish)