Clamav is not working properly - more errors

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by Rndoom04, Aug 19, 2022.

  1. Rndoom04

    Rndoom04 New Member

    Good afternoon,
    today I have more time to fix my issues and I ended with clamav. There is more errors than I expected. So, I tryed to describe how it's working now.

    Code:
    clamdscan
    returns: "ERROR: Could not connect to clamd on LocalSocket /var/lib/clamav/clamd.sock: Connection refused"
    The problem is the clamav didn't creating /var/lib/clamav/clamd.sock. This .sock is created manually with chown clamav:clamav with permissions -rw-r--r--. It took only 1 B size. When I remove this sock and tryed to create it automatically, nothing happens, just error ERROR: Could not connect to clamd on LocalSocket /var/lib/clamav/clamd.sock: No such file or directory and clamd.sock will not be created. Where can be the problem and any idea how to fix it? :)

    The second problem is (probably small), but...
    Code:
    /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon status
    tells me: "Process: 2053895 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir /run/clamav (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)"
    Ok, I'm going to remove the folder manually rm - r /run/clamav and restart the clamav daemon. It tells me now: "Process: 2054069 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir /run/clamav (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)". When I repeat restart second time, it tells me again the failure row. The folder /run/clamav is completly created automatically with chown clamav:root (is it ok? how to fix?) with permissions drwxr-xr-x.

    Thank you very much for your help.
     
  2. Taleman

    Taleman Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    I assume you are running ISPConfig? Do this to get some context on this thread: https://forum.howtoforge.com/threads/please-read-before-posting.58408/
    Code:
    "ERROR: Could not connect to clamd on LocalSocket /var/lib/clamav/clamd.sock: Connection refused"
    I would guess that is because clamd is not running. Probably host is configured to run clamd on command and not as deamon service.
    Try
    Code:
    clamscan /home
    instead.
    You should remove the sock files you created manually and maybe reboot the host.
     

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