On Monday 13 April 2009 19:29:42 Ned Slider wrote: > 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. > I'm not at the server at the moment, so I'm writing this from memory. I did check that the user clamav is a mamber of the amavis group. Clamd is using /tmp/clamd.socket (IIRC) so I've set amavis to that. Both clamd and amavisd restarted correctly, so I'm hoping that's fixed it. Thanks for your help Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090413/253a2414/attachment-0005.sig>