[CentOS] clamd error

Feizhou feizhou at graffiti.net
Tue Feb 6 13:11:58 UTC 2007


Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I get the below error, while starting clamd. what's wrong with it? help is
> needeed.
> 
> [root at worldnet clamav]# /etc/init.d/clamd start
> Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: LibClamAV Error: cli_cvdload():  Can't
> create temporary directory /var/tmp/clamav-25f631f5d9a7b846
> LibClamAV Error: Can't load /var/clamav/main.cvd: Unable to create 
> temporary
> directory
> ERROR: Unable to create temporary directory
>                                                           [FAILED]
> 


Read only /var?

Check 1) permissions and 2) mount status of file system that holds /var/tmp.



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