On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:14:05PM +0300, Alex said:
> I'm using clamav via a antispam tool named dspam. It has integrated 
> support for clamav via TCP.
> 
> When I asked why wasn't there socket support, I got this answer:
> 
> "you can't stream over a unix socket, only tcp"
> 
> Is that really the case?

Of course not.

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:24:04PM +0800, ?????????? ?????? said:
> I think the clamav only support network socket, not unix socket.

No, it supports both just fine.  Not simultaneously, perhaps, but that's
not really a problem in practice.

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:52:56PM +0300, Alex said:
> >I think the clamav only support network socket, not unix socket.
> 
> From the clamav.conf file:
> 
> # The daemon works in a local OR a network mode. Due to security reasons we
> # recommend the local mode.
> 
> # Path to a local socket file the daemon will listen on.
> # Default: disabled
> #LocalSocket /var/lib/clamav/clamd-socket
> 
> By local socket it's meant unix socket, right? And even if it were a 
> named pipe, so what.

It means unix socket, correct.  It is silly of them not to support it.

Take care,
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