I was going through my logs and this kept on popping up. It seems every
4-5 hours clamav-demon crashes or stops working. After doing some
looking around I found a number of websites mention there is a bug in
clamav-demon that hasn't been resolved yet. I'm wondering if simply
setting up a cron to restart clamav every few hours would be a temp fix
until a fix is released.
I'm on Debian 9
May 15 18:02:00 cetus amavis[13242]: (13242-08) (!)connect to
/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl failed, attempt #1: Can't connect to a UNIX
socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Connection refused
May 15 18:02:01 cetus amavis[13242]: (13242-08) (!)connect to
/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl failed, attempt #1: Can't connect to a UNIX
socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Connection refused
May 15 18:02:01 cetus amavis[13242]: (13242-08) (!)ClamAV-clamd: All
attempts (1) failed connecting to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl, retrying (2)
May 15 18:02:07 cetus amavis[13242]: (13242-08) (!)connect to
/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl failed, attempt #1: Can't connect to a UNIX
socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Connection refused
May 15 18:02:07 cetus amavis[13242]: (13242-08) (!)ClamAV-clamd
av-scanner FAILED: run_av error: Too many retries to talk to
/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (All attempts (1) failed connecting to
/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl) at (eval 98) line 613.\n
May 15 18:02:07 cetus amavis[13242]: (13242-08) (!)WARN: all primary
virus scanners failed, considering backups
Phil
