[clamav-users] Use of clamav-daemon.socket? (0.102.0)

[Orion Poplawski]

On 11/9/19 2:46 AM, Frans de Boer wrote:
> LS,
> 
> I use several machines and found that most of the time the use of the 
> 'clamav-daemon.socket' file only leads to a startup failure of clamd. 
> Why is this file file in the first place? I ask this because clamd is 
> already creating the socket - that is, when the socket was not created 
> earlier.
> 
> In my current configurations, I just disabled the 
> clamav-clamonacc.socket file without problem.
> 
> So, what is it's intended use?
> 
> --- Frans.

In the abstract, systemd .socket units are intended to avoid startup 
load and/or consuming resources for services that do not run all the 
time.  They are generally only useful to services that start up quickly. 
  I started looking at the possibility of shipping it with the Fedora 
package but decided that clamd does not meet these expectations.  It has 
a very long startup time and so systems almost always what it started 
immediately so that it can respond quickly when needed.  I would 
recommend just dropping it.

-- 
Orion Poplawski
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NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office             FAX: 303-415-9702
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