[clamav-users] Freshclam errors after MacOS Catalina update

[Michael Newman]

After updating to MacOS Catalina I get the following errors when running freshclaim:

ERROR: Can't open /private/var/log/freshclam.log in append mode (check permissions!).
ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /private/var/log/freshclam.log).
ERROR: initialize: libfreshclam init failed.
ERROR: Initialization error!

But, there is no such file as:  /private/var/log/freshclam.log

I’m running this from a shell script. Here’s the command I’m using:

/opt/local/bin/freshclam -v --stdout >>$log

Where log is just ~/Library/Logs/clam.log

How do I fix this?