OT: Clamd error

[Derek Ragona]

At 11:17 AM 8/21/2008, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Sorry for cross-posting but it seams that the members from the other list
>went on vacation- and I'm in a jam
>
>I run  exim 4.69 clamav .93 and spamassassin on a freebsd box  - basically it
>gets my smtp traffic, checks for spam virus etc,, then forwards it to my
>mailserver-
>
>Suddenly last night it stopped working , I check the paniclog and all I see
>is
>
>2008-08-21 09:44:26 1KWASY-0000EF-PB malware acl condition: clamd: unable to
>connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory)
>2008-08-21 09:44:34 1KWASh-0000EZ-Pq malware acl condition: clamd: unable to
>connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory)
>2008-08-21 09:45:09 1KWARf-0000EG-En malware acl condition: clamd: unable to
>connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory)
>2008-08-21 09:45:38 1KWATZ-0000EG-9e malware acl condition: clamd: unable to
>connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory)
>
>I unistalled clamav
>"make deinstall"
>
>Then "&& make clean"
>
>Then "make install clean"
>
>
>And I still get the same errors- the weird part is that when I do "top"
>clamd IS running-
>
>22089 clamav      1   4    0 62132K 61616K accept   0:00  0.00% clamd
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated as im rerouting my mail now- and
>getting bombarded with spam
>
>
>Thx

If restarting the clam services doesn't fix this, edit your conf files and 
make sure you have the same names for the socket file.

         -Derek