I am fairly new to Linux but have a Debian 4 Desktop installation with clamav and clamd running on it. On top of this I am running ASSP (http://assp.sourceforge.net) to do Anti-Spam, which ties into clamd for anti-virus.
What I'm finding is that it takes an hour after booting until the socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl appears. Until that time, ASSP can't use ClamAV, and after that I have to restart ASSP for it to finally recognize it. It occurs to me that the 1 hour delay is due to freshclam being set to run 24 times a day (once an hour). Can anyone suggest a way for me to make the socket appear at bootup? I had wondered about running freshclam from /etc/rc.local but as a test when I ran freshclam from the command line it said it couldn't lock the database directory /var/lib/clamav and sure enough adding freshclam to /etc/rc.local made no difference. Thanks for any pointers. Alex _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
