Hi, That appears to have worked, however, my clamav-daemon.socket did not look like that, it only had:
ListenStream=/run/clamav/clamd.ctl ListenStream=7358 For the listenstream parameters. Thanks > -----Original Message----- > From: Blueonyx <blueonyx-boun...@mail.blueonyx.it> On Behalf Of Michael > Stauber via Blueonyx > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2023 6:08 PM > To: blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > Subject: [BlueOnyx:26517] Re: No clamd server appears to be available > > Hi Darren, > > > I believe I am having a problem caused by the change you've made > > here - the clamd process is constantly running at 100% cpu all > > the time. The maillog shows this repeated continuously:> > > clamd[232355]: TCP: Cannot bind to [127.0.0.1]:7358: Address already in use > > clamd[232355]: Not listening on any interfaces > > > > Netstat shows this: > > tcp6 436 0 :::7358 :::* LISTEN 0 25723 1/system > > > > even if I disable the clam av av-spam service, it continues. > > > Yeah, I'm not entirely happy with the latest change either, as the > attempts to bind Clam AV to the TCP port produces some weird results > without rhyme or reason. > > First of all: Make sure you have the latest AV-SPAM installed. This > should be 7.2.7-1 (5209R/5211R) or 7.2.7-2 (5210R). > > If that's already the case and/or the problem persists, open this file > in an editor (as root): > > /usr/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.socket > > There should be a section like this in it: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > [Socket] > ListenStream=/run/clamav/clamd.ctl > # Default: > ListenStream=127.0.0.1:7358 > # Use this instead if 'No clamd server appears to be available' persists: > # ListenStream=127.0.0.1:1024 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > As you can see: It tries to bind to 127.0.0.1:7358, which works for most > installs where I tested this. But it doesn't for some, like in your case. > > Comment out the line ... > > ListenStream=127.0.0.1:7358 > > ... and removed the leading "#" (and the space) from the other line: > > # ListenStream=127.0.0.1:1024 > > So it should look like this when done: > > ListenStream=127.0.0.1:1024 > > Save the changes and then run the following: > > systemctl daemon-reload > systemctl stop clamav-daemon clamav-daemon.socket > systemctl restart clamav > > Then give it a minute, as clamav-daemon.socket will only be able to > finalize its task once Clam AV is fully started up. > > At first it will bind to 127.0.0.1:1024 and the process list (as well as > netstat) will show that Systemd is holding that port open. Then after > Clam AV has fully started up it will bind to 127.0.0.1:7358 as well and > will show that Clam AV is holding that port open. > > I'm still looking into fixing this for good, but I haven't yet managed > to identify why I don't get fully reproducible and consistent behavior > for this across several different virtualization platforms and physical > server installs. It's a pretty weird issue between Systemd and this > current Clam AV release. > > -- > With best regards > > Michael Stauber > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx