OK, try the 'lsof' command to identify what is using /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket.
Steve On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Kishore Pawar <mkpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Steve. Yes, I tried removing them and kill the running clamd process > and start it again but still the clamd status doesn't show anything other > than the error. > > # clamd status > ERROR: LOCAL: Socket file /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket is in use by another > process. > > ---- > > There is probably another clamd running. If not, try deleting > /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket. > > Steve > > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Kishore Pawar <mkpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Steve > > > > Thank you very much for the reply and your suggestion. I rebuild it with > > the options (--enable-llvm=no) provided by you and it seems to be ok now. > > But now I am unable to stop/start the clamd and am not able to get the > > status of clamd. > > > > > > # clamd status > > ERROR: LOCAL: Socket file /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket is in use by > > another process. > > > > # ls -lrt /var/run/clamav/ > > total 12 > > srw-rw-rw-. 1 clamav clamav 0 May 15 11:29 clamd.socket > > -rw-rw-r--. 1 clamav clamav 5 May 15 11:29 clamd.pid > > -rw-rw----. 1 clamav clamav 5 May 15 11:29 freshclam.pid > > srw-r--r--. 1 clamav root 0 May 15 11:46 clamav-milter.socket > > -rw-rw-r--. 1 clamav clamav 5 May 15 11:46 clamav-milter.pid > > > > I observed that the 'clamav-milter.socket' is started by root and not > > clamav user. I am not sure if that's how it is supposed to be. If it > needs > > to be started by clamav, where should I do the changes? > > > > Thanks > > Kishore > > > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
