[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#904013: clamav-freshclam: superfluous time info logged, please set LogTime false

[Vaclav Ovsik]

Package: clamav-freshclam
Version: 0.100.1+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,
my production servers with ClamAV sent me messages from logcheck after
latest Debian 9.5 point release upgrade. A newer freshclam probably
has implemented setting LogTime from /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf.
Logcheck rules don't assume the extra time information in log messages.
I tried to install clamav-freshclam into my Sid laptop and LogTime is
set to true and really:

 bobek:~# systemctl status clamav-freshclam.service 
 ● clamav-freshclam.service - ClamAV virus database updater
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-freshclam.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
    Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-07-18 10:35:02 CEST; 11min ago
      Docs: man:freshclam(1)
            man:freshclam.conf(5)
            https://www.clamav.net/documents
  Main PID: 23166 (freshclam)
     Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
    Memory: 162.0M
    CGroup: /system.slice/clamav-freshclam.service
            └─23166 /usr/bin/freshclam -d --foreground=true
 
 Jul 18 10:35:02 bobek systemd[1]: Started ClamAV virus database updater.
 Jul 18 10:35:02 bobek freshclam[23166]: Wed Jul 18 10:35:02 2018 -> ClamAV update process started at Wed Jul 18 10:35:02 2018
 Jul 18 10:35:47 bobek freshclam[23166]: Wed Jul 18 10:35:47 2018 -> Downloading main.cvd [100%]
 Jul 18 10:35:55 bobek freshclam[23166]: Wed Jul 18 10:35:55 2018 -> main.cvd updated (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, build
 Jul 18 10:36:13 bobek freshclam[23166]: Wed Jul 18 10:36:13 2018 -> Downloading daily.cvd [100%]
 Jul 18 10:36:19 bobek freshclam[23166]: Wed Jul 18 10:36:19 2018 -> daily.cvd updated (version: 24760, sigs: 2015700, f-level: 63, b
 Jul 18 10:36:19 bobek freshclam[23166]: Wed Jul 18 10:36:19 2018 -> Downloading bytecode.cvd [100%]
 Jul 18 10:36:19 bobek freshclam[23166]: Wed Jul 18 10:36:19 2018 -> bytecode.cvd updated (version: 324, sigs: 89, f-level: 63, build
 Jul 18 10:36:24 bobek freshclam[23166]: Wed Jul 18 10:36:24 2018 -> Database updated (6582038 signatures) from db.local.clamav.net (
 Jul 18 10:36:24 bobek freshclam[23166]: Wed Jul 18 10:36:24 2018 -> !NotifyClamd: Can't find or parse configuration file /etc/clamav

There is extra 
 Wed Jul 18 10:36:24 2018 -> 
superfluous time information.

LogTime false is probably better default setting.
Best Regards
Thanks for your work
-- 
Zito


-- Package-specific info:
--- configuration ---
# Automatically created by the clamav-freshclam postinst
# Comments will get lost when you reconfigure the clamav-freshclam package

DatabaseOwner clamav
UpdateLogFile /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
LogVerbose false
LogSyslog false
LogFacility LOG_LOCAL6
LogFileMaxSize 0
LogRotate true
LogTime true
Foreground false
Debug false
MaxAttempts 5
DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav
DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net
ConnectTimeout 30
ReceiveTimeout 30
TestDatabases yes
ScriptedUpdates yes
CompressLocalDatabase no
SafeBrowsing false
Bytecode true
NotifyClamd /etc/clamav/clamd.conf
# Check for new database 24 times a day
Checks 24
DatabaseMirror db.local.clamav.net
DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net

--- data dir ---
total 162736
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav    185246 Jul 18 10:36 bytecode.cvd
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav  48545458 Jul 18 10:36 daily.cvd
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 117892267 Jul 18 10:35 main.cvd
-rw------- 1 clamav clamav        52 Jul 18 10:36 mirrors.dat

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages clamav-freshclam depends on:
ii  clamav-base            0.100.1+dfsg-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.67
ii  dpkg                   1.19.0.5+b1
ii  libc6                  2.27-5
ii  libclamav7             0.100.1+dfsg-1
ii  libssl1.1              1.1.0h-4
ii  logrotate              3.11.0-0.1
ii  lsb-base               9.20170808
ii  procps                 2:3.3.15-2
ii  ucf                    3.0038
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

clamav-freshclam recommends no packages.

Versions of packages clamav-freshclam suggests:
ii  apparmor     2.12-5
pn  clamav-docs  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/clamav-freshclam [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/clamav-freshclam'

-- debconf information excluded