On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Bob Cohen wrote: > Grr. The yum update breaks my amavisd/clam installation. I’m running CentoOs > 5.x. It appears to be a permissions problem: > > Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: ERROR: LOCAL: Socket file > /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock could not be bound: Permission denied > > I’ve reviewed the CentOS Amavisd-new, ClamAV and SpamAssassin setup recipe > (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd) and gone over my clamd.conf and > amavisd.conf. Everything seems in order. I’m stymied. I can’t remember what I > did the last time this happened and I fixed it. > > Here’s the socket settings in my clamd.conf file: > > # Value below used to work until a recent yum udate > > LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock > > # New value as of 12/5/2013. Matches amavisd.conf > > #LocalSocket /var/amavis/clamd.sock > > Help would be appreciated. Thank you.
So what are the permissions for /var/run/clamav? (Does that directory even exist?) And what user/group IDs does your clamd daemon run under? Alan Stern _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
