[clamav-users] ClamAVPlugin

[Joe Acquisto-j4]

>> Hi there,
>> 
>> On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote:
. . .
> 
>> 2. Can you get clamd to reply to a PING?  Here's my laptop talking to my
>>     clamd server, you might want to use a Unix socket, or IP 127.0.0.1
>>     and port 3310 depending on your configuration:
>> 
> 
> Seems quite leisurely, but it does come back, eventually.
> 
> myhost:~ # clamd zPING
> Sun Feb 21 18:34:45 2021 -> !TCP: Cannot bind to [127.0.0.1]:3310: Address 
> already in use
> Sun Feb 21 18:34:45 2021 -> !LOCAL: Socket file /var/run/clamav/clamd-socket is 
> in use by another process.
> Sun Feb 21 18:34:45 2021 -> *Closing the main socket.
> 
> I am a bit perplexed by this as I am pretty sure I had the port set 
> correctly a while back.  Well, gotta fix that
> at least.

Turns out that is normal for the way I was trying to do it.

the "correct" way, one that works anyway is this:

"echo nPING | nc 127.0.0.1 3310 
PONG"

>> 73,
>> Ged.
>> 
> 

joe a