Re: Starting clamav

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2022, John wrote:

> I have been running clamav as part of my mailer's anti-spam system for
> years.  More recently I started using the Debian package rather that a
> self-build (mainly because clamav requires an increase of support
> code) but I am having trouble starting it. In particular it reports
>
> Starting ClamAV daemon: Tue Aug  9 16:36:00 2022 -> !LOCAL: Socket file /var/run/clamav/clamd could not be bound: Permission denied
> Tue Aug  9 16:36:00 2022 -> *Closing the main socket.
>
> I have tried changing ownership/permissions on /var/run/clamav with no
> noticeable affect.  In the past I had to change ownership to Debian-exim
> but that does not seem sufficient.
>
> What should I do next?

Wild guess, have you tried deleting /var/run/clamav completely (on my
machines it's a tmpfs so wiped on reboot) and then restarting?