[clamav-users] No return value from clamd

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, emninger at .... wrote:

> In slackware 14.1 i'm starting clamav as a service on boot. Doing so, i
> get the following error msg:
>
> -------
>    Timeout reached while waiting for return value
>    Could not receive return value from daemon process
> -------

Your subject line doesn't say the same thing as this error message.

I suggest that you don't start any *clam* processes at boot if it's
causing you trouble.

What makes you think that the 'daemon process' is clamd?  It might be
but it might not.  More investigation is required.  You're the one who
has to do it. :)

Are you in fact using clamd, and if so, how?  And why? :)

If you really need to start clamd at boot I suggest that you remove
the existing rc.clamav and so that you know what's happening and when
it happens add a few simple lines in rc.local, wherever Slackware has
that script thesedays (I'm sorry, I gave up on Slackware years ago).

Something like this would do:

/bin/echo "$(/bin/date)"
/bin/echo "Attempting to start clamd daemon."
/usr/sbin/clamd ....
/bin/echo "$(/bin/date)"
/bin/echo "Done."

and the same for the freshclam daemon.

> which makes the boot really slow (sometimes starting X even hangs!).

It isn't clear to me what X has to do with any of this, but if you're
having problems with X as well it might indicate a more general issue
than just one which affects ClamAV.

> rc.clamav in /etc/rc.d looks like this:

Your rc.clamav, at least as mailed to me, is garbled.  It might have
been the mail systems which did that or it might not.  Perhaps you can
post a copy of it somewhere so that we can see it unaltered?  As it
is, what I can see isn't much use as it can never run properly.

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73,
Ged.