Sorry for my last scrambled postings. In the meantime I have done a fresh install from source. But the problem has not gone. I can start clamd in foreground, the nohup.out shows no errors:
======================================= Limits: Global size limit set to 104857600 bytes. Limits: File size limit set to 26214400 bytes. Limits: Recursion level limit set to 16. Limits: Files limit set to 10000. Limits: Core-dump limit is 0. Archive support enabled. Algorithmic detection enabled. Portable Executable support enabled. ELF support enabled. Mail files support enabled. OLE2 support enabled. PDF support enabled. HTML support enabled. Self checking every 600 seconds. Listening daemon: PID: 30374 MaxQueue set to: 100 Client disconnected (FD 14) /root/spip_style.php3: OK ============================= and I can clamdscan files, as the last two lines show. Without the daemon, I can use the clamscan utility without problems: =========== h830101:/var/log #clamscan /var/log/apache2 ... /var/log/apache2/access_log: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20100516.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20100113.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20091205.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20100422.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20091121.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20100312.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/error_log-20100306.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/error_log: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20091221.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20100429: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20100227.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20100202.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20100326.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/access_log-20091124.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/error_log-20091001.gz: OK /var/log/apache2/oekoshop.log: OK ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Known viruses: 788152 Engine version: 0.96.1 Scanned directories: 1 Scanned files: 76 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 520.18 MB Data read: 56.18 MB (ratio 9.26:1) Time: 75.357 sec (1 m 15 s) You have new mail in /var/mail/root h830101:/var/log # =================================== But when I try to start in background, it stops after some seconds with the infamous error command, no more info given. I tried the "debug" option, to no avail, either. :( There is a "moodle" server running on this machine, and I really am at a loss, as moodle relies on calling clamdscan running in background when checking upload activity, which will of course only work with a clamd daemon running. Mike _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
