[clamav-users] problem with clamav upgrade

[Reio Remma]

> On 11. Dec 2019, at 21:16, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
>> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, ratatouille via clamav-users wrote:
>> "G.W. Haywood via clamav-users" <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> schrieb am 11.12.19 um 15:23:43 Uhr:
>> 
>>> Did you not just tell me in another thread (failed to write to") that
>>> you compiled ClamAV from source?  In that case, why would you want to
>>> allow 'yum update' to install an older version of ClamAV?
>> 
>> That was on another server running an a bit outdated openSUSE-OS.
> 
> Ah, I see.  In that case...
> 
>> # Path to a local socket file the daemon will listen on.
>> LocalSocket /var/run/clamd.amavisd/clamd.sock
> 
> ...why not change this to listen instead on a TCP socket, and use the
> single (and up to date) clamd instance on your OpenSUSE server to scan
> for your other servers?  Of course depending on how many there are you
> might need more than one machine running a clamd process, but normally
> you won't need a clamd running on every machine.
> 
> Be aware that when clamd listens to a TCP socket, it provides no way
> to prevent connections to the socket from devices which you might not
> want to connect to it.  You have to do that stuff yourself.

Unfortunately amavisd only supports scanning via socket.