OT: Clamd error

[Bill Moran]

In response to "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola at familycareintl.org>:

> 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

Have you tried restarting clamd?  What does "sockstat | grep clamd" say?

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Bill Moran
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