freebsd-6-stable clamav-0.94_1 problems

[George Mamalakis]

Hello everybody,

today I updated my port of clamav, from clamav-0.92-something to 
clamav-0.94_1. Clamd restarted nicely; but when I tried to restart 
clamav-milter, I encountered the following message:

Waiting for clamd socket.. 60.. 50.. 40.. 30.. 20.. 10..
There is no clamd socket (/var/run/clamav/clamd.sock)!

And it was right! There was no /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock socket on my 
system, instead there was a /var/run/clamav/clamd. But 
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-milter looks for /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock 
in its clamav_clamd_socket variable.

Then I looked up the same variable (clamav_clamd_socket) in the startup 
script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd. It was 
/var/run/clamav/clamd.sock! But whenever I was restarting clamd via 
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd it kept creating the socket 
/var/run/clamav/clamd (not clamd.sock as it was supposed to). Even when 
I set the clamav_clamd_socket in /etc/rc.conf and restarted clamd, I 
still would get the same results. The interesting thing is, that 
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-milter was aware of the changes made in 
/etc/rc.conf regarding the clamav_clamd_socket variable, whereas 
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd wasn't.

I assume that  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd is not checking 
/etc/rc.conf of where it should place its socket, nor does clamd read it 
correctly from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd, since even though the 
startup script has the entry :

: ${clamav_clamd_socket="/var/run/clamav/clamd.sock"}

in it, clamd keeps on creating the /var/run/clamav/clamd socket instead.

In order for my scripts to be useable, I have changed /etc/rc.conf to 
state:
clamav_clamd_socket="/var/run/clamav/clamd"

so as to override what /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-milter thinks.

If someone knows why this happens I would be grateful if they could help 
me.

Thank you for your time, in advance,

regards,

-- 
George Mamalakis

IT Officer
Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Un. of Thessaloniki),
MSc (Imperial College of London)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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