There is a major bug in the version you are running. If you enable the
volatile repo and upgrade clamav, you should be fine.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Alex Davidson <[email protected]>wrote:

> I am fairly new to Linux but have a Debian 4 Desktop installation with
> clamav and clamd running on it.
> On top of this I am running ASSP (http://assp.sourceforge.net) to do
> Anti-Spam, which ties into clamd for anti-virus.
>
> What I'm finding is that it takes an hour after booting until the
> socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl appears.
> Until that time, ASSP can't use ClamAV, and after that I have to
> restart ASSP for it to finally recognize it.
>
> It occurs to me that the 1 hour delay is due to freshclam being set to
> run 24 times a day (once an hour).
>
> Can anyone suggest a way for me to make the socket appear at bootup?
> I had wondered about running freshclam from /etc/rc.local but as a
> test when I ran freshclam from the command line it said it couldn't
> lock the database directory /var/lib/clamav and sure enough adding
> freshclam to /etc/rc.local made no difference.
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Alex
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