On Saturday, September 21, 2013 23:50:00 DTNX Postmaster wrote: > On Sep 21, 2013, at 21:29, David Benfell <dbenf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At least within postfix, there is a very nice command to just fix the > > permissions. (Did Wietse get tired of seeing that particular problem?) > > I have no idea what they should be for clamd.ctl because, as near as I > > can tell, it isn't a permanent file, so I can't even see it in the > > emergency backup I did from a rescue system after the Arch upgrade > > hosed my server (which is remote, by the way). > > This is the socket, and it is or should be created by the ClamAV daemon > on startup. Check your ClamAV configuration for details, on Debian the > config files are in '/etc/clamav' by default. If there is no entry > specifying the location, check the ClamAV docs for the default > location, which is probably somewhere in '/var/run' or similar.
On Debian (and Ubuntu), as root (or using sudo depending on your system configuration) run dpkg-reconfigure clamav-base. It will, among other things, ask you if you want a Unix socket or a TCP socket and what port to listen on. This is documented at the top of /etc/clamav/clamd.conf Scott K
