[CentOS] Clamd not working

On Saturday 28 June 2008 20:38:15 Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> AnneWilson wrote:
> > I seem to have been getting the daily updates.  I've not seen the error
> > message before.  Perhaps it's just because clamd was not started at
> > bootup (or at all before freshclam ran), do you think?
>
> Yes. Because freshclam tries to tell clamd that there have been updates,
> so that clamd reloads the databases. So if clamd wasn't running,
> freshclam cannot connect to it.
>
Immediately after the update to clamav it wasn't running, but I got a 
different message then, so I didn't recognise this one.  I'll let you know 
what logwatch says in the morning.  Thanks for the help

Anne