Hi there, I have this annoying problem, and I don't know what to do. I've tried to set up a mailfiltering system with postfix, amavis, spamassassin and clamav, and the first three is working great, but if I enable the virus scanning in amavis, postfix throws the mail away beacuse it couldn't connect to clamav's local soket.
May 18 18:00:57 mordor postfix/smtpd[10245]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] May 18 18:00:57 mordor postfix/smtpd[10245]: 48C014BB0A: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] May 18 18:00:57 mordor postfix/cleanup[10248]: 48C014BB0A: message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> May 18 18:00:57 mordor postfix/qmgr[8117]: 48C014BB0A: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=1703, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 18 18:00:57 mordor postfix/smtpd[10245]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] May 18 18:00:58 mordor amavis[10210]: (10210-01) (!) ClamAV-clamd: Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Nincs ilyen f\341jl vagy k\366nyvt\341r, retrying (2) May 18 18:01:04 mordor amavis[10210]: (10210-01) (!!) ClamAV-clamd av-scanner FAILED: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Nincs ilye n f\341jl vagy k\366nyvt\341r) at (eval 44) line 268. May 18 18:01:04 mordor amavis[10210]: (10210-01) (!!) WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups May 18 18:01:04 mordor amavis[10210]: (10210-01) (!!) TROUBLE in check_mail: virus_scan FAILED: virus_scan: ALL VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED: ClamAV-clamd av-scanner FAILED: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/cla mav/clamd.ctl (Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Nincs ilyen f\341jl vagy k\366nyvt\341r) at (eval 44) line 268. May 18 18:01:04 mordor amavis[10210]: (10210-01) (!) PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20080518T180057-10210 May 18 18:01:04 mordor postfix/smtp[10249]: 48C014BB0A: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=7.1, delays=0.05/0.01/0.01/7.1, dsn=4.5.0, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] sa id: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=10210-01, virus_scan FAILED: virus_scan: ALL VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED: ClamAV-clamd av-scanner FAILED: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Nincs ilyen f\341jl vagy k\366nyvt\341r) at (eval 44) line 268. (in reply to end of DATA command)) "Nincs ilyen f\341jl vagy k\366nyvt\341r" means no such file or directory. mordor:/var/run/clamav# ps aux |grep clamd root 10147 100 4.4 51444 46372 ? Rs 17:53 1:00 /usr/sbin/clamd root 10166 0.0 0.0 1972 624 pts/0 R+ 17:54 0:00 grep clamd mordor:/var/run/clamav# ls -la összesen 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 2008-05-18 17:50 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2008-05-18 16:02 .. -rw-rw---- 1 clamav clamav 5 2008-05-18 17:50 freshclam.pid mordor:/var/run/clamav# less /etc/clamav/clamd.conf |grep LocalSocket #LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl mordor:/var/run/clamav# Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks, Attila _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html