clamav-freshclam: fais if log folder doesn't exist

[Alberto Diaz]

Binary package hint: clamav-freshclam

I have my /var/log on a ramdisk, so it's empty on reboot.
If I try launch a manual update,

freshclam
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).

[RoyK (roysk)]

Why on earth do you have log files on a ram disk? if something goes bad and you get a reboot, you loose the logs.

Now, if you really want them on the ram disk, script up so that the needed directories will be created. This isn't a bug, it's a design issue. IIRC Apache also won't start if you remove /var/log/apache

[Alberto Diaz (superber)]

Storing logs on a tmpfs is a common practise on netboks with a SSD hd.
I think some kind of wrapper could be used to recreate that directory on the fly

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I don't think it's the job of every package that logs to /var/log to deal with this. If you want to support this configuration, solve it once for all packages that use the directory.