[clamav-win32] Clamd error or am I doing something stupid ?

[Bret Miller]

Rob McEwen wrote:
>> Now the "netfarm" clamd crashes every time at startup. The "clamd" 
>> process appears... but then disappears seconds later
>>     
>
> Problem solved... sort of... I ran it in "debug mode" and got the 
> following error:
>
> TCP: bind() error: Permission denied win32
>
> I knew this wasn't a firewall or config error... so I assumed that maybe 
> that port got all "clogged up", or something like that.
>
> So I went to the "clamd.conf" and change the TCPSocket # from 3310 to 3311
>
> ...and it worked!
>
> (glad that I was able to get this back going again... but somehow I'm 
> not totally comfortable with this. There must be some needed improvement 
> to prevent this from happening, right?)
>   
Hi Rob,

Haven't heard much from you since our Merak testing days. It sounds to me like port 3310 is either reserved or in use by something else. You might try running "netstat -n -b" and see what's got port 3310 open.

Bret