[CentOS] clamAV problem

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 14 18:50:55 UTC 2009


On Saturday 14 February 2009 17:35:32 Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:12:47 +0000:
> > > that is userhomedir/tmp/clamd.socket
> >
> > Kai, I'm lost.  That's what I touch'd, so it does exist.
>
> Read again, this is "userhomedir/tmp/clamd.socket" and not
> "/tmp/clamd.socket". clamd does not use the socket
> "userhomedir/tmp/clamd.socket" unless you tell it to do so. And freshclam
> does not try to signal to that socket unless it cannot find the correct
> clamd.conf or has some other problem that you created. Find out why your
> freshclam is trying the wrong socket.
> If you installed clamav from rpmforge, it works out of the box.

I am, and the problem is that it didn't work out of the box.  It didn't when I 
installed it before, either, although I did eventually get it sorted.

> There is nothing needed to be touched, remove that touched file!
> Check your clamd.conf that the correct socket gets used, check
> freshclam.conf that the correct clamd.conf is read and start clamd.
> There's nothing else to do.
> And if you don't need clamd, there's no need to install it or signal to
> it. So, tell it not to signal.
>
OK, I understand a bit more about it now, but I really don't think that I need 
it.  Getting to grips with what you do and don't need of related packages can 
be quite a job.

Anne

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