[Mimedefang] A Bit of Confusion - Solved but different problemwith CLAMD

[Rob]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com 
> [mailto:mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On 
> Behalf Of Peter A. Cole
> 
> I have tried running clamd as user "defang", but clamd won't 
> then start.

Are all the required directories owned by defang rather than clamav
(/usr/local/share/clamav, the log directory and the directory the socket is
created in)?

> I have added the user "defang" to the group "clamav", but I 
> get errors when
> sending/receiving mail saying "Could not connect to clamd daemon at
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/clamd.sock".
> 
> This file does not exist either.

It won't if it doesn't start.  Did you however tell clamd to create that
socket?


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Rob | What part of "no" was it you didn't understand?