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