(!)connect to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl failed,

Hello,

I have search the forums and have tried all the remedies that I have been able to find but still having this issue. I am running Debian Jessie with Postfix, amavis, clamav, courier. I started getting this error after the last clamav debian update a few weeks ago. I have tried restarting the clamav-daemon but when I do a ps -ef |grep clam all _ get is:

root@c3p0:/var/run/clamav# ps -ef |grep clam
amavis 23382 18347 99 09:55 ? 00:00:02 /usr/bin/clamscan --stdout --no-summary -r --tempdir=/var/lib/amavis/tmp /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20160616T084504-18347-F4vFTosA/parts
root 23385 23055 0 09:55 pts/4 00:00:00 grep clam
clamav 26135 1 0 Jun15 ? 00:00:07 /usr/bin/freshclam -d --foreground=true

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Jun 16 09:56:37 c3p0 amavis[18371]: (18371-13) (!)connect to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl failed, attempt #1: Can't connect to a UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory
Jun 16 09:56:38 c3p0 amavis[18371]: (18371-13) (!)connect to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl failed, attempt #1: Can't connect to a UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory
Jun 16 09:56:38 c3p0 amavis[18371]: (18371-13) (!)ClamAV-clamd: All attempts (1) failed connecting to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl, retrying (2)
Jun 16 09:56:44 c3p0 amavis[18371]: (18371-13) (!)connect to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl failed, attempt #1: Can't connect to a UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory
Jun 16 09:56:44 c3p0 amavis[18371]: (18371-13) (!)ClamAV-clamd av-scanner FAILED: run_av error: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (All attempts (1) failed connecting to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl) at (eval 99) line 613.\n
Jun 16 09:56:44 c3p0 amavis[18371]: (18371-13) (!)WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups

 

Did you update clamav with apt-get in the last days? Comment AllowSuplementaryGroups in /etc/clamav/clamd.conf and restart clamav.

 

Thanks. I thought I did that but must have not saved the file properly. Working now.

 

Hi Florian,
Maybe you should update The Perfect Server install guide:
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial...ix-dovecot-mysql-phpmyadmin-rkhunter-binutils
and change the line AllowSupplementaryGroups from false to true:

AllowSupplementaryGroups true

 

By the way, it takes me some minutes figure how can restart clamav in Debian Jessie:
service clamav-daemon restart
To check status:
/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon status