On 2003-12-29, Pat Masterson wrote:

>>> It is not clamd that is the problem. It is the clamav-milter that wont
>>>start. It used to work OK before I upgraded.
>>
>>clamav-milter uses User directive from clamav.conf and drops root
>>privileges *before* creating listening socket. Take a look into
>>clamav-milter.c, lines 667-683.
>>
>
> I believe clamav user does have permissions to write into /var/run:

Please show output of these:

ls -al /var | grep run
egrep -i ^user: /path/to/your/clamav.conf

s.

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