On Saturday 28 June 2008 13:49:24 Ralph Angenendt wrote: > AnneWilson wrote: > > I tried starting clamd from a ssh session and this is what I saw: > > > > service clamd start > > Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: Limits: Global size limit set to > > 104857600 bytes. > > Limits: File size limit set to 26214400 bytes. > > Limits: Recursion level limit set to 16. > > Limits: Files limit set to 10000. > > Archive support enabled. > > Algorithmic detection enabled. > > Portable Executable support enabled. > > ELF support enabled. > > Detection of broken executables enabled. > > Mail files support enabled. > > OLE2 support enabled. > > PDF support enabled. > > HTML support enabled. > > Self checking every 1800 seconds. > > Socket file removed. > > Pid file removed. > > --- Stopped at Sat Jun 28 10:13:34 2008 > > [ OK ] > > It appeared to hang at the 'self checking' line, and I left it for > > several minutes before using Ctrl-C. > > It looks as if it isn't started as a daemon from within your start > script (meaning that it doesn't detach and go into the background). > > Do you somehow have an uncommented > > Foreground > > in your /etc/clamd.conf? > One more question, please. My logs this morning show /etc/cron.daily/freshclam: connect(): No such file or directory It does exist, but it is owned root:root. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 456 Jun 9 19:53 /etc/cron.daily/freshclam Shouldn't this be owned by clamav? Are there other files I should check for ownership? Anne