[clamav-users] Yum Updater Breaks My Set Up

[Alan Stern]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Bob Cohen wrote:

> Grr. The yum update breaks my amavisd/clam installation. I’m running CentoOs 5.x. It appears to be a permissions problem:
> 
> Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: ERROR: LOCAL: Socket file /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock could not be bound: Permission denied
> 
> I’ve reviewed the CentOS Amavisd-new, ClamAV and SpamAssassin setup recipe (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd) and gone over my clamd.conf and amavisd.conf. Everything seems in order. I’m stymied. I can’t remember what I did the last time this happened and I fixed it.
> 
> Here’s the socket settings in my clamd.conf file:
> 
> # Value below used to work until a recent yum udate
> 
> LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock
> 
> # New value as of 12/5/2013. Matches amavisd.conf
> 
> #LocalSocket /var/amavis/clamd.sock
> 
> Help would be appreciated. Thank you.

So what are the permissions for /var/run/clamav?  (Does that directory 
even exist?)  And what user/group IDs does your clamd daemon run under?

Alan Stern