Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 13 April 2009 12:31:15 Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Anne Wilson wrote on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:00:40 +0100: >>> I came unstuck with the instruction regarding the LocalSocket. If I >>> change that in clamd.conf to $MYHOME/amavisd.sock or $MYHOME/clamd the >>> clamd service won't start, saying the socket doesn't exist. >> And maybe that's true, did you check whether it exists? > > It doesn't. I'm under the impression that a socket cannot be manually created, > but has to be created by the application, so I simply don't know what to do > about this. > My tired brain has only just digested the above paragraph - my guess would be that the clamav user doesn't have permissions to write to $MYHOME so can't create the socket? My socket is located at /var/run/clamav/clamd and the /var/run/clamav dir is owned by clamav:clamav with 755 perms. The clamav user is also a member of the amavis group.