On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 10:24 -0500, Frank DeChellis wrote:
> Hi there and happy new year.
> 
> We are running ClamAV 0.94.2 . Just installed it 2 hours ago. When it does
> the self check and reload I get this message:

> ERROR: Command: readsock() failed.
> Socket file removed.
> ERROR: Can't unlink the pid file /var/run/clamd.pid
> --- Stopped at Fri Jan  2 15:02:46 2009
> 
> We deleted all of the database files and did a fresh reload on them and it
> still happens.  It starts up fine, does it¹s business then poops when it
> does the self check.  Any ideas?  Below I included the output when I start
> clamd and the log entry from fresh clam.

permission problem.  Make certain freshclam, clamd, and any other
scripts that might update signatures are running as the same user, and
that the user owns the files.

> 
> From clamd.log:
> ------------------
> 
> +++ Started at Fri Jan  2 15:19:35 2009
> clamd daemon 0.94.2 (OS: netbsdelf, ARCH: i386, CPU: i386)
> Running as user exim (UID 15633, GID 200)

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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com

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