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List:       postfix-users
Subject:    Re: need to purge clamav from postfix configuration
From:       Scott Kitterman <postfix () kitterman ! com>
Date:       2013-09-22 0:48:28
Message-ID: 1390983.Jtqj8ieMvr () scott-latitude-e6320
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On Saturday, September 21, 2013 23:50:00 DTNX Postmaster wrote:
> On Sep 21, 2013, at 21:29, David Benfell <dbenfell@gmail.com> wrote:
> > At least within postfix, there is a very nice command to just fix the
> > permissions. (Did Wietse get tired of seeing that particular problem?)
> > I have no idea what they should be for clamd.ctl because, as near as I
> > can tell, it isn't a permanent file, so I can't even see it in the
> > emergency backup I did from a rescue system after the Arch upgrade
> > hosed my server (which is remote, by the way).
> 
> This is the socket, and it is or should be created by the ClamAV daemon
> on startup. Check your ClamAV configuration for details, on Debian the
> config files are in '/etc/clamav' by default. If there is no entry
> specifying the location, check the ClamAV docs for the default
> location, which is probably somewhere in '/var/run' or similar.

On Debian (and Ubuntu), as root (or using sudo depending on your system 
configuration) run dpkg-reconfigure clamav-base.  It will, among other things, 
ask you if you want a Unix socket or a TCP socket and what port to listen on.  
This is documented at the top of /etc/clamav/clamd.conf

Scott K
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