Re: [exim] clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run…

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Author: Martin A. Brooks
Date:  
To: Martin Windfuhr
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (No such file or directory)
Martin Windfuhr wrote:
> 2009-02-22 13:11:35 1LbE7K-0001yq-JG malware acl condition: clamd: unable
> to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (No such file or
> directory)
>
>
>


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> /var/log/exim4/panic.log
> 2009-02-22 13:11:35 1LbE7K-0001yq-JG malware acl condition: clamd: unable
> to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (No such file or
> directory)
>

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> ls -la /var/run/clamav
> drwxr-xr-x  2 clamav clamav 4096 Feb 22 13:19 .
> drwxr-xr-x 13 root   root   4096 Feb 22 13:19 ..
> -rw-rw----  1 clamav clamav    5 Feb 22 13:19 freshclam.pid

>

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Seems you have all the information you need here.
/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl doesn't exist. Perhaps clam's not configured
to place the socket file in that directory. Perhaps it's not creating
that socket file at all. I would check clam's config.