Clamd.amavisd start error

Hello all,

Today I installed a perfect server Fedora 12 with ISPConfig 3.02 on i686 box.
After installing amavisd-new and clamav you run this command: /etc/init.d/clamd.amavisd start and this gives an error.
clamd.amavisd Local: Socket file /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock is in use by another process.

What to do now ?

Output of ls -l: /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock: cannot access /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock: No such file or directory

Output of ls -la /var/run/: drwxr-xr-x 2 amavisd amavisd 4096 2010-03-12 15:30 amavisd ( No other amavisd or clamd or clamd.amavisd in this output )

 

Update

Also I tried this http://www.howtoforge.net/forums/showthread.php?t=34559&highlight=clamd.sock#6 The file www mentioned does not exists on my server so I edited /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf
But that gives an other error: ERRORlease define server type ( local and/or tcp )

 

What's the output of

Code:

updatedb
locate clamd.conf

?

What's in /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf?

 

Hello Falko,

The output of locate clamd.conf:
/user/share/doc/clamav-server-0.95.3/clamd.conf
/user/share/man/man5/clamd.conf.5.gz

I attached the amavisd.conf file.

Have a nice day

 

Can you change

Code:

User amavis

to

Code:

User amavis[B][COLOR="Red"]d[/COLOR][/B]

in /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf and restart Clamd?

 

Hello Falko,

I have changed /etc/clamd/amavisd.conf like you suggested but when I restart clamd.amavisd it gives another error:

Code:

[B]Error: Can't get information about user amavisd. Starting clamd.amavisd failed[/B]

Any other ideas ?

 

What's the output of

Code:

grep amavis /etc/passwd

?

 

Hello Falko,

Here is the output of grep amavis /etc/passwd:

amavis:x:490:475::/var/spool/amavisd:/sbin/nologin

Have a nice day !

 

Ok, then

Code:

User amavis

is correct in /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf, but /var/spool/amavisd/ should be owned by amavis, not amavisd.

Can you run

Code:

chown -R amavis:amavis /var/spool/amavisd/

?

 

Thanks again Falko, that did the trick !

In my humble opinion, does the tutorial "perfect server F12" need a little update at chapter 15 page 5 ? ( http://www.howtoforge.net/perfect-server-fedora-12-x86_64-ispconfig-3-p5 ).

Now there is this:

Code:

chown amavis /var/run/amavisd /var/spool/amavisd /var/spool/amavisd/tmp /var/spool/amavisd/db

and maybe this:

Code:

chown -R amavis:amavis /var/spool/amavisd/

can / must be added ?

Thank you for your time and have a nice day

 

After updating to ISPConfig v3.0.2.1 I have this problem back again.

Code:

[root@obelix /]# /etc/init.d/clamd.amavisd restart
Stopping clamd.amavisd:                                    [FAILED]
Starting clamd.amavisd: ERROR: LOCAL: Socket file /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock is in use by another process.
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@obelix /]#

grep amavis /etc/passwd

Code:

[root@obelix /]# grep amavis /etc/passwd
amavis:x:492:477::/var/spool/amavisd:/sbin/nologin
[root@obelix /]#

locate clamd.conf

Code:

[root@obelix /]# updatedb
[root@obelix /]# locate clamd.conf
/usr/share/doc/clamav-server-0.95.3/clamd.conf
/usr/share/man/man5/clamd.conf.5.gz
[root@obelix /]#

/etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf

Code:

# Use system logger.
LogSyslog yes

# Specify the type of syslog messages - please refer to 'man syslog'
# for facility names.
LogFacility LOG_MAIL

# This option allows you to save a process identifier of the listening
# daemon (main thread).
PidFile /var/run/amavisd/clamd.pid

# Remove stale socket after unclean shutdown.
# Default: disabled
FixStaleSocket yes

# Run as a selected user (clamd must be started by root).
User amavis

# Path to a local socket file the daemon will listen on.
LocalSocket /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock

 

Did you try

Code:

chown -R amavis:amavis /var/spool/amavisd/

?

 

Hello Falko,

Yes I did. But this time it did not help to start clamd.amavisd

 

What's the output of

Code:

ls -la /var/spool/amavisd/

?

 

Output of ls -la /var/spool/amavisd/:

Code:

[root@obelix ~]# ls -la /var/spool/amavisd/
total 28
drwx------  7 amavis amavis 4096 2010-04-05 04:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root   root   4096 2010-04-01 00:44 ..
srwxr-x---  1 amavis amavis    0 2010-04-05 04:53 amavisd.sock
srwxrwxrwx  1 amavis amavis    0 2010-04-05 01:14 clamd.sock
drwx------  2 amavis amavis 4096 2010-04-05 04:53 db
drwx------  2 amavis amavis 4096 2009-08-10 22:26 quarantine
drwxr-x---  2 amavis amavis 4096 2010-04-05 06:18 .razor
drwx------  2 amavis amavis 4096 2010-04-05 16:09 .spamassassin
drwx------  3 amavis amavis 4096 2010-04-05 21:16 tmp

The "0" in front of amavisd.sock and clamd.sock should be "4096" just as the others, isn't it ?

 

chkconfig --list

Code:

[root@obelix ~]# chkconfig --list
NetworkManager  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
SystemEmail     0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:off   6:off
acpid           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
amavisd         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
atd             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
auditd          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
avahi-daemon    0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
backuppc        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
clamd.amavisd   0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
courier-authlib 0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
courier-imap    0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
cpuspeed        0:off   1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
crond           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
cups            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
dc_client       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
dc_server       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
dnsmasq         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
fail2ban        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
firstboot       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
gpm             0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
haldaemon       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
httpd           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
ip6tables       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
iptables        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
irda            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
irqbalance      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
lm_sensors      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
lvm2-monitor    0:off   1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
mdmonitor       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
messagebus      0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
microcode_ctl   0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
monit           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
multipathd      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
munin-node      0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
mydns           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
mysqld          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
netconsole      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
netfs           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
netplugd        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
network         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
nfs             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
nfslock         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
nmb             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
nscd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
ntpd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:off   6:off
ntpdate         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:off   6:off
openvpn         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
pcscd           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
portreserve     0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
postfix         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
psacct          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
pure-ftpd       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
racoon          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
rdisc           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
restorecond     0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
rpcbind         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
rpcgssd         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
rpcidmapd       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
rpcsvcgssd      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
rsyslog         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
saslauthd       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
shorewall       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
slapd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
smartd          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
smb             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
snmpd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
snmptrapd       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
spamassassin    0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
squid           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
sshd            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
sysstat         0:off   1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
udev-post       0:off   1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
vsftpd          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
wpa_supplicant  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
ypbind          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off

 

Can you kill all existing clamd.amavisd processes, delete /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock and restart clamd.amavisd?

 

Solved - again

Here is what I did:

Code:

[root@obelix ~]# ps aux | grep clamd.amavisd
amavis    1489  0.0  9.1 129324 93464 ?        Ssl  Apr05   0:22 clamd.amavisd -c /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf --pid /var/run/clamd.amavisd/clamd.pid
root     18947  0.0  0.0   4208   736 pts/0    S+   19:14   0:00 grep clamd.amavisd

to get the PID numbers.

Then

Code:

kill -9 1489

and

Code:

kill -9 18947 
-bash: kill: (18947) - No such process.

Ignoring this I went on with

Code:

rm -f /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock

and

Code:

/etc/init.d/clamd.amavisd start

and clamd.amavisd started without errors.

What will happen when I reboot my box ?

Thank you for your help.

 

I guess that if it starts without problems now, it will also start on a reboot.

 

Today I had to reboot ...
And after that I had to do as you mentioned in post #17.
I can live with this, just for your information

Nice weekend