On Thursday 25 October 2007 04:42:59 René Berber wrote: > linuxmaillists wrote: > > I am getting this error message in my root e-mail: > > > > Could not connect to ClamAV daemon: Connection refused > > Looks like ClamAV daemon is not OK. Check up database integrity > > and restart daemon > > > > I cannot find any information for how to do what the above > > error message suggests. If the information is in the man page > > for ClamAv where and what is it? > > No it's not in the manpage, the procedure depends on what you > have installed alongside clamd, clamdmon is obvious, some script > that downloads third party databases probably, perhaps something > else. > > > I also can't find any information on how to use this clamdmon > > and there is no man page for it. > > Clamdmon is a program and a script, you are receiving the email > that the script sends (from cron) when it detects a problem. The > script also tries to restart clamd, so first thing is to check if > clamd is running (the script was successful restarting clamd), if > not then you should look into the clamd log and see, at the end, > if an error is reported; perhaps that will give you enough clues > to determine what is wrong. > > If clamd still can't start, then you probably have to move out of > the way each of the 3rd party databases, and see which one is the > cause of the problem.
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