[CentOS] clamAV problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 13:35:19 Mail List wrote:
> >> All is still not well.  Freshclam still tells me
> >>
> >> WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through
> >> ~/tmp/clamd.socket
> >>
> >> Is this relative to root, or where?
> >>
> >>Anne
>
>    Anne,
>
>     First off you have to decide if you need clamd?
>  If not then all you would need to do is edit freshclam.conf
> and tell it not to notify clamd.
>
>   # Send the RELOAD command to clamd.
>   # Default: no
>   #NotifyClamd /path/to/clamd.conf
>
>   I'm using the non rpm version for MailScanner. but your version activates
> it automatically. Also in the cron entry "/etc/cron.daily/freshclam" is --
> is another entry telling freshclam to notify clamd. If you do need clamd
> then you can remove your touched socket, edit clamd.conf make sure it
> points to the right /tmp/clamd.socket. then..
>
>    service clamd start
>
>  I hope that helps.
>
That might be the best answer.  If I'm going to just run scans on a cron job 
there's probably no reason for clamd.  I'll make those changes, thanks.

All the same, it's galling that this was working before the power problems :-(

Anne
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