[clamav-users] ClamAV on RHEL 6.8 (IBM Power 8 -PPC64)

[Kishore Pawar]

Thanks Steve. Here's the output of lsof.

# clamd status
ERROR: LOCAL: Socket file /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket is in use by another
process.

# lsof | grep clamd.socket
clamd     6776    clamav    5u     unix 0xc000000003692480       0t0
72993 /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket

# ps -ef | grep 6776
clamav    6776     1  0 15:57 ?        00:00:00 clamd
root      6889  2739  0 16:20 pts/1    00:00:00 grep 6776

Thanks
Kishore

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Kishore Pawar <mkpawar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Steve. Yes, I tried removing them and kill the running clamd
> process and start it again but still the clamd status doesn't show anything
> other than the error.
>
> # clamd status
> ERROR: LOCAL: Socket file /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket is in use by
> another process.
>
> ----
>
> There is probably another clamd running. If not, try deleting
> /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket.
>
> Steve
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Kishore Pawar <mkpawar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve
>>
>> Thank you very much for the reply and your suggestion. I rebuild it with
>> the options (--enable-llvm=no) provided by you and it seems to be ok now.
>> But now I am unable to stop/start the clamd and am not able to get the
>> status of clamd.
>>
>>
>> # clamd status
>> ERROR: LOCAL: Socket file /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket is in use by
>> another process.
>>
>> # ls -lrt /var/run/clamav/
>> total 12
>> srw-rw-rw-. 1 clamav clamav 0 May 15 11:29 clamd.socket
>> -rw-rw-r--. 1 clamav clamav 5 May 15 11:29 clamd.pid
>> -rw-rw----. 1 clamav clamav 5 May 15 11:29 freshclam.pid
>> srw-r--r--. 1 clamav root   0 May 15 11:46 clamav-milter.socket
>> -rw-rw-r--. 1 clamav clamav 5 May 15 11:46 clamav-milter.pid
>>
>> I observed that the 'clamav-milter.socket' is started by root and not
>> clamav user. I am not sure if that's how it is supposed to be. If it needs
>> to be started by clamav, where should I do the changes?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kishore
>>
>
>