Autor: W B Hacker Datum: To: exim users Betreff: Re: [exim] clamd: unable to connect to UNIX
socket/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (No such file or directory)
Stephen Gran wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:16:51PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks said:
>> 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.
>
> The version of clamd he's running has some known bugs WRT signature
> processing - it takes ages to load the signature (sometimes more than 15
> minutes on even good hardware), and it won't create the socket until it
> has loaded the signatures.
>
> This has gotten to be sort of a FAQ on the clamav-users list, which is
> why I pointed the OP there.
>
> Cheers,
Have similar issue on a FreeBSD 4.11 box we don't want to upgrade,
though five minutes is closer than 15.
Didn't realize it was a problem, as we don't start Exim until its
dependencies (ClamAV, SA, PostgreSQL) are all online.
I'd have thought the Linux way with intird runlevels would have done the
same, if not better....
