clamav and freshclam update failures

[Jan]

Some years ago I had an issue with clamav on LXLE 12.04 not updating. It was down to permissions on the log file.

This was what I wrote at the time - don't know if it helps.

Noticed one issue - clamav cannot update sigs because the log file directory is missing.
If you run sudo freshclam you get error:-
Can't open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode

As root I created /var/log/clamav, then:-
chown -R clamav:clamav /var/log/clamav

freshclam now updates sigs OK.

Thank you, robinc, for your reply when I first posted my issue with clamav and freshclam update failures. 

Given my current issue, ie., "^Clamd was NOT notified. Can't connect to clamd through /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl:  No such file or directory.", I'm thinking that the solution that worked for you would not apply in my case.  I know very little about this subject matter, but thank you for taking the time to write and offer your suggestion.