Oh okay. My problem was I never set "LocalSocket STRING" in my clamd.conf
file therefore anybody was able to send the SHUTDOWN command to the daemon.
Thank you.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:48 AM, G.W. Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 Some One wrote:
>
> > ... "echo SHUTDOWN | nc localhost 3310" would kill the daemon.
> > I was not root at the time of sending the command and the daemon
> > still quits. Isn't this bad?
>
> Check the permissions on the socket?
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
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