McDonald, Dan wrote: > 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. >
And also that freshclam.conf and clamd.conf are loading the signatures from the same directory. Regards, Rick _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
