On Friday 27 June 2008 23:35:35 Paul Schoonderwoerd wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2008 19:43:06 Anne Wilson wrote: > > rm /var/clamav/* -rf > > which will remove all the signatures. Don't worry, you'll get them > > back in the next step. As root, type > > freshclam -v > > And that will download all the necessary signatures again. > > </quote> > > > > At that point I thought all was well - until I had to reboot, when I > > found that it hung with a message (from memory) 'self-checking 1800'. > > Using Interactive boot I discovered that it came from clamd. > > > > I'm guessing that daily.cld main.cld and mirrors.dat are being sought > > somewhere other than /var/clamav. Maybe a symlink is required? If > > someone with a working clamd could advise me I'd be most grateful. For > > now I have had to chkconfig clamd off. > > > > Anne > > Does the /var/clamav dir still exist ? It is in the clamd rpm. > mirrors.dat, daily.cld and main.cld are in /var/clamav > > It seems easiest to me to reinstall clamd and clamav. > It does. The original install was Dag's and worked without a problem. Then came an update which broke ClamTK's operation. With the help of the ClamTK dev that was fixed, but now I have this problem at bootup. What I haven't tried, and will today, is booting with chkconfig off, but then starting clamd from the CLI. If that is problem-free maybe I will need to talk to Dag. Anne