Tom H wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the 0.90.3 rpm from the fedora core 6 repos running on my fedora
> 6 box.
> It is running as the defang user, and has been running fine for a long
> while, however the clamd was restarted last night and mimedefang is
> complaining that there is no /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock file, and sure
> enough there is not. There is also no pid file also; 
> 
> It looks like the /etc/clamd.conf parses ok;
> 
> [r...@vs802 MIMEDefang]# clamconf -n
> /etc/clamd.conf: clamd directives
> -----------------
> LogFile = "/var/log/clamav/clamd.log"
> LogFileMaxSize = 0
> LogTime = yes
> LogVerbose = yes
> LogSyslog = yes
> PidFile = "/var/run/clamav/clamd.pid"
> TemporaryDirectory = "/tmp"
> ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio = 300
> LocalSocket = "/var/run/clamav/clamd.sock"
> MaxConnectionQueueLength = 30
> MaxThreads = 50
> ReadTimeout = 300
> FixStaleSocket = yes
> User = "defang"
> 
> /etc/freshclam.conf: freshclam directives
> -----------------
> PidFile = "/var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid"
> DatabaseOwner = "defang"
> Checks = 24
> UpdateLogFile = "/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log"
> DatabaseMirror = "db.gb.clamav.net"
> NotifyClamd = "/etc/clamd.conf"

> 
> 
> Any ideas on what has happened and how to fix it?
> 
> (I am going to update the server fedora core 10 soon, which should give
> me the new clamav packages - but for the moment I would just like to get
> this working again)
> 

Does user "dfang" have read/write permissions in the /var/run/clamav 
directory (and does that directory exist?).

dp
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