I have been able to resolve all my issues. I had three different permissions based issues, one
included needing to point the pid file to a different location. I'm happy to report this is
resolved.
Jay
> Hello gents,
>
> First time poster here!
>
> Current system running Centos 6.8. Buddy of mine posted a few days back about me wanting to move
> from Postfix 2.6.x to 2.8 to above, still under centos 6.8. I might move over to 7, but probably
> not for a while, don't have the resources presently to make this happen.
>
> Running Centos 6.8, postfix 2.6.6, clamav 0.99.1. Basic Centos 6.8 box fully patched using stable
> repos.
>
> ____ISSUE_____
>
> Logwatch is reporting this error, which I'm going to assume has been occurring for a few years but
> doesn't affect sending/receiving emails, so I haven't chased it down, now I'm looking to fix that.
>
> 1 (06498-19) ClamAV-clamd: All attempts (1) failed connecting to
> /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock, retrying (1)
>
> Since this is reported by "ClamAV-clamd", I am assuming this is coming from amavisd.conf. My
> logic on this is that a grep search for that particular string only shows up in the
> /etc/amavisd.conf file, when its calling the scanner. Pasted code from file below:
>
> @av_scanners = (
> ['ClamAV-clamd',
> \&ask_daemon, ["CONTSCAN {}\n", "/var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock"],
> qr/\bOK$/m, qr/\bFOUND$/m,
> qr/^.*?: (?!Infected Archive)(.*) FOUND$/m ],
>
> Best I can determine /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock file exists. So, not sure what is causing this
> or why, or how to fix.
>
> Here is /var/spool/amavisd contents:
>
> [run]# ls -al /var/spool/amavisd/
> total 64
> drwxr-x--- 7 amavis amavis 4096 Aug 21 19:10 .
> drwxr-xr-x. 15 root root 4096 Mar 15 2012 ..
> srwxr-x--- 1 amavis amavis 0 Aug 21 19:10 amavisd.sock
> srw-rw-rw- 1 amavis amavis 0 Aug 21 19:10 clamd.sock
> drwxr-x--- 2 amavis amavis 4096 Aug 21 19:10 db
> drwxr-x--- 2 amavis amavis 36864 Aug 21 19:50 quarantine
> drwxr-x--- 2 amavis amavis 4096 Aug 21 09:23 .razor
> drwx------ 2 amavis amavis 4096 Aug 21 20:42 .spamassassin
> drwxr-x--- 4 amavis amavis 4096 Aug 21 20:42 tmp
>
>
> Seems to be owned by the right group, I rebooted at 19.10 today hence timestamp date/time.
>
> So, my question is, what do I need to do to eliminate this error? How can I chase it down?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jay
>
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