Hello,
I am new to clamav and I’ve completed installing a private mirror server. Freshclam works fine but when I try to start the clamd daemon I get this error. Any help is appreciated.
systemctl status clamd@scan -l
● clamd@scan.service - clamd scanner (scan) daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamd@scan.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Thu 2021-06-24 23:21:13 UTC; 41min ago
Docs: man:clamd(8)
man:clamd.conf(5)
https://www.clamav.net/documents/
Process: 2030 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/clamd -c /etc/clamd.d/%i.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jun 24 23:21:13 ip-10-64-205-168.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 24 23:21:13 ip-10-64-205-168.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Failed to start clamd scanner (scan) daemon.
Jun 24 23:21:13 ip-10-64-205-168.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Unit clamd@scan.service entered failed state.
Jun 24 23:21:13 ip-10-64-205-168.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service failed.
Jun 24 23:21:13 ip-10-64-205-168.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jun 24 23:21:13 ip-10-64-205-168.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Stopped clamd scanner (scan) daemon.
Jun 24 23:21:13 ip-10-64-205-168.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for clamd@scan.service
Jun 24 23:21:13 ip-10-64-205-168.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Failed to start clamd scanner (scan) daemon.
Jun 24 23:21:13 ip-10-64-205-168.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Unit clamd@scan.service entered failed state.
Jun 24 23:21:13 ip-10-64-205-168.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service failed.
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