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List:       clamav-users
Subject:    Re: [Clamav-users] Problem Reloading Database during self check
From:       Rick Macdougall <rickm () ummm-beer ! com>
Date:       2009-01-02 16:16:18
Message-ID: 495E3DD2.2090304 () ummm-beer ! com
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McDonald, Dan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 10:24 -0500, Frank DeChellis wrote:
>> Hi there and happy new year.
>>
>> We are running ClamAV 0.94.2 . Just installed it 2 hours ago. When it does
>> the self check and reload I get this message:
> 
>> ERROR: Command: readsock() failed.
>> Socket file removed.
>> ERROR: Can't unlink the pid file /var/run/clamd.pid
>> --- Stopped at Fri Jan  2 15:02:46 2009
>>
>> We deleted all of the database files and did a fresh reload on them and it
>> still happens.  It starts up fine, does it šs business then poops when it
>> does the self check.  Any ideas?  Below I included the output when I start
>> clamd and the log entry from fresh clam.
> 
> permission problem.  Make certain freshclam, clamd, and any other
> scripts that might update signatures are running as the same user, and
> that the user owns the files.
> 

And also that freshclam.conf and clamd.conf are loading the signatures 
from the same directory.

Regards,

Rick

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