[clamav-users] Unable to run freshclam on Debian Jessie

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday, February 27, 2016 06:43:05 PM Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote:
> Ok, I installed ClamAV on Debian Jessie using the command:
> 
> sudo apt-get install clamav clamav-daemon
> 
> Next I tried to update the database:
> 
> sudo freshclam
> 
> The following error messages came up:
> 
> ERROR: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by another process
> ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile =
> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log)
> 
> Could someone tell me how to fix the above? Thanks.

What are you trying to accomplish?  By default in Debian freshclam is run as a 
daemon and regularly updates the virus signatures.  If you want to run it by 
hand for some reason, you'll need to stop the daemon first:

sudo service clamav-freshclam stop

Don't forget to start it again afterwards or your system will get out of date.

Scott K