Re: [Clamav-users] Error when starting clamd at boot time

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Graeme Nichols wrote:

> I have begun to get the following error when starting clamd at boot time.
>
> ERROR:
>
> Please define server type, Local and/or TCP
>
> I have checked the clamd.conf file and can find no place to define the
> server.

What you define is how it communicates, either set LocalSocket or TCPSocket.

> I noticed that clamd had stopped starting at boot time (the virus definition
> file was not being updated automatically) so I used the GUI to set it to
> start at boot time and now I get the above error.
>
> However, if I then run freshclam I am told that the definition file is up to
> date.

Freshclam knows better ;-)
Hint: it uses the location defined in clamd.conf or, if there is none, then the hardcoded location (that clamd also uses). - --
René Berber
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