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

On 25/06/07, René Berber <rberber@prodigy.net.mx> wrote:
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> Graeme Nichols wrote:
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> > 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

Thank Rene, all fixed. The problem was an old clamd.conf. Using a properly configured up-to-date clamd.conf file makes a world of difference :-)

Thanks again,

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Kind Regards,

Graeme.
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