Unable to start clamsmtpd

[Ott Köstner]

On Sunday 14 June 2009 10:46:01 pm Jerry wrote:

> I had:
> 
> ClamAddress: /var/run/clamav/clamd
> 
> in my config file. I changed the clamd to clamd.sock but it did not
> make a difference.
> 
> The clamd.pin, clamd.sock= and freshclam.pid files are in
> the /var/run/clamav directory.
> 
> This is becoming really annoying. Aparently, clamdsmtp will not create
> its own clamsmtpd.pid file.

Name does not matter, but '/var/run/clamav/' should be owned by 'clamsmtp' owner. Also 'clamd.conf' should be edited. The socket must be the same in both configuration files.

# Path to a local socket file the daemon will listen on.
# Default: disabled (must be specified by a user)
LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock

All 3 programs should run under the same username:

  PID USERNAME   THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
56863 clamav       3  45    0   236M 28292K ucond  0   0:03  0.98% clamd
21484 clamav       1   4    0 15704K   984K accept 1   1:44  0.00% clamsmtpd
56894 clamav       1  20    0 19188K   636K pause  1   0:39  0.00% freshclam

Works fine. I can send all my conf files, if needed. Probably not a very good idea to copy/paste these into this list. My clamd works fine for some time already. This very e-mail goes through my clamd...

greetings,
Ott