On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 4:13:55 PM EDT John wrote: > I apologise in advance if this question is trivial but I am getting > very lost. > > I have been running clamav as part of my mailer's anti-spam system for > years. More recently I started using the Debian package rather that a > self-build (mainly because clamav requires an increase of support > code) but I am having trouble starting it. In particular it reports > > Starting ClamAV daemon: Tue Aug 9 16:36:00 2022 -> !LOCAL: Socket file > /var/run/clamav/clamd could not be bound: Permission denied > Tue Aug 9 16:36:00 2022 -> *Closing the main socket. > > I have tried changing ownership/permissions on /var/run/clamav with no > noticeable affect. In the past I had to change ownership to Debian-exim > but that does not seem sufficient. > > What should I do next? I get the same error for a couple of versions, > 103 and 104 I think.
If you're using Debian packages on the current stable release, the default for the clamd socket is: LocalSocket /run/clamav/clamd.ctl I would suggest checking what you have in /etc/clamav/clamd.conf Currently /var/run and /run should be symlinked, so either should work. It is owned by the clamav user and the root group: drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav root 60 Aug 1 11:34 clamav If you are running using sysv init and there is a /etc/default/clamav-daemon file, it's sourced by the init script and will override what's in the clamd config file. I think you are hunting in the right area of the likely problem, but there's some additional things you can check. Scott K _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat
