On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 13:55:53 -0000, Chris Evans wrote:
> amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) 
> clamav 0.67-1 (from Debian stable -- I think)
> 
> One interesting discovery I've made setting up amavisd-new and 
> clamav.  Amavisd-new seems to expect to find the clamd.ctl socket at 
> /var/run/clamd.ctl and the default on the version of clamav I have 
> seemed to be /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl.  It's easy to reset that in 

That's right. That location of socket is to let clamd run as _non_ root
(user amavis is a good choice).

[...]
> So I decided it would be more efficient to comment out all the 
> primary and secondary antiviral calls in /etc/amavis/amavisd.conf 
> (since amavisd-new seemed to be trying all the ones that weren't 
> commented out and failing to find them at launch).  I think that's 

Commenting them out isn't worth the trouble. They are searched for only
at amavisd-new startup.

> the only change I made, but then all my mail started to pile up and 
> amavisd-new continued to complain that it couldn't find that socket 
> (previously this hadn't caused the mail to block).  I had a look at 

When socket wasn't available, a secondary scanner (clamscan) was used.
This is a good thing to keep a secondary one at hand. Don't comment it
out.

> /etc/clamav/clamav.conf and saw that I could change the socket 
> location from /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl to /var/run/clamd.ctl.  Did 

A bad way. Change the socket definition in /etc/amavis/amavisd.conf, not
in clamav.conf. Like here:

\&ask_daemon, ["CONTSCAN {}\n", '/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl'],

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