Re: ClamAV installation required?

>On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote:
>>inner my cronjob with 'freshclam start' on end 'freshclam stop' - not as
>>daemon

On 16.07.25 21:57, Andrew C Aitchison via clamav-users wrote:
>Do you have a good reason *not* to use the daemon ?

This might be your problem.

>On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote:
>>Then on each Upgrade Ubuntu replaces my whole permissions for ClamAV and
>>with this, ClamAV didn't work anymore, so I always need to restore my own
>>Permissions to get ClamAV working again.

>On my machine the files in /var/lib/clamav are all owned by
>    clamav:clamav

This also indicates Newcomer01 set permissions in a way incompatible with ubuntu.

Newcomer01 - set permissions to clamav:clamav and start clamd and freshclam
under clamav user as Ubuntu designed it.

After that, freshclam should be able to update databases periodically and 
notify clamd as well.


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