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 > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > -- http://www.volatileminds.net _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
