I do apologize for the newbiness of such a question, but - How to make clamd run at start (create a service for it in systemctl or something)?

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I may be wrong, but I have clamonacc in services. And at start it always goes to failed state, stating that there is no local instance running. For which I need to manually call clamd. Does this command help, or this is just a regular on-demand scan?

Thanks. Tried it now, and I think I’m doing something wrong… The output from a freshly booted system: clamd@scan.service - clamd scanner (scan) daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamd@.service; enabled; preset: disabled) Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d …

Fix permissions and settings, then reboot to properly apply the changes and collect the updated logs: sudo gpasswd -a ${USER} virusgroup sudo setfacl -R -m u:clamscan:r-X,d:u:clamscan:r-X /home sudo sed -i -e ' /^LocalSocketMode\s/s/^/#/ /^OnAccessExcludeUname\s/s/clamav/clamscan/ ' /etc/clamd.d/sc…

I see now (sorry, my terminal knowledge of Linux is far from good) Apr 06 18:03:55 clamd[10031]: ERROR: lchown to user 'clamscan' failed on Apr 06 18:03:55 clamd[10031]: log file '/var/log/clamd.scan'. Apr 06 18:03:55 clamd[10031]: Error was 'Permission denied' Apr 06 18:03:55 clamd[10031]: WARNING…

[image] Vladislav Grigoryev: journalctl --no-hostname --no-pager -b \ -u clamav-clamonacc.service -u clamd@scan.service Apr 06 18:45:54 systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 06 18:45:54 systemd[1]: Failed to start clamd@scan.service - clamd scanner (scan) daemon.…

sudo killall clamd sudo mv -f /var/log/clamd.scan{,.bak} sudo systemctl restart clamd@scan.service systemctl status clamd@scan.service journalctl --no-pager --no-hostname -S -5m -u clamd@scan.service

Finally! It’s alive! Thank you very much for your time and your patience. Two questions to ask: Do I need to do something with clamav-clamonacc? Before that I went sudo clamd sudo systemctl start clamav-clamonacc With the route of running from the first point I now realized that I can’t run a…

[image] Draakz: sudo clamd Don’t ever start it like that. The relevant service should be already enabled. [image] Draakz: sudo systemctl start clamav-clamonacc Be sure to enable the service: sudo systemctl enable clamav-clamonacc.service --now [image] Draakz: ant clean all S…

[image] Vladislav Grigoryev: Sorry, I’m not familiar with that tool. Basically a compiler for files (ant, maven). The moment I started clamonacc I got stuck on running ant. I think clamonacc preventing access to it somehow.

Finally made it work. There were two problems: I didn’t know how to properly configure the initial part (so I was poking options till it went green). I now replaced it with # TCP port address. # Default: no TCPSocket 3310 # TCP address. # By default we bind to INADDR_ANY, probably not wise. # E…

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