On Saturday 28 June 2008 21:30:51 AnneWilson wrote: > 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 > This morning's report ended with ' Database correctly reloaded (332027 signatures)', so it looks as though the problem is solved. I haven't tested a reboot, but I think it's safe to assume that 'Foreground' was the problem. Thanks for all the help Anne