Perfect! It's working now. Thanks for such a prompt response. Alex
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Brandon Perry <bperry.volat...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a major bug in the version you are running. If you enable the > volatile repo and upgrade clamav, you should be fine. > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Alex Davidson <davidson.a...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 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
