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[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sun, 8 Dec 2019, ratatouille via clamav-users wrote:

> I stop freshclam systemctl stop freshclam.  clamd is also stoped
> then. So I start it with systemctl start clamd and then fresclam is
> also startet.

That seems a little odd to me but I don't think it necessarily
indicates a problem.

> I kill freshclam and clamd is still running.
> Then I start freshclam -d as root and it is running as vscan, as always.
>
> What else could I do?

How about trying something like

freshclam --datadir=/tmp

to see if it still fails?

I wonder if you should try the latest version of ClamAV, compiled from source.

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73,
Ged.