clamav error: Could not connect to clamd on LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory

thisisatestacc · May 16th 2019

Hi. i installed the clam av plugin. when i tried to run a scheduled scan, i got this error:http://pasteall.org/pic/83bdc5139705e4e7c9d4c4266332cd96
i ran this : ps -ef|grep clamd
output is this : root 21830 21821 0 18:58 pts/1 00:00:00 grep clamd
(i found this after googling the issue)

thisisatestacc · May 19th 2019

ps: maybe there is a communication error?

thisisatestacc · May 23rd 2019

hello?

votdev · May 23rd 2019

Which OMV version?

thisisatestacc · May 25th 2019

votdev, Release: 4.1.22-1
Codename: Arrakis

votdev · May 26th 2019

Is clamav running?

Bash

# systemctl status clamav-daemon

thisisatestacc · May 26th 2019

● clamav-daemon.service - Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service.d
└─extend.conf
Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-05-26 14:35:39 +0430; 28s ago
Docs: man:clamd(8)
man:clamd.conf(5)
https://www.clamav.net/documents/
Main PID: 30601 (clamd)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/clamav-daemon.service
└─30601 /usr/sbin/clamd --foreground=true

May 26 14:35:39 openmediavault systemd[1]: Starting Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon...
May 26 14:35:39 openmediavault systemd[1]: Started Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon.
May 26 14:35:42 openmediavault clamd[30601]: LibClamAV Warning: **************************************************
May 26 14:35:42 openmediavault clamd[30601]: LibClamAV Warning: *** The virus database is older than 7 days! ***
May 26 14:35:42 openmediavault clamd[30601]: LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible. ***
May 26 14:35:42 openmediavault clamd[30601]: LibClamAV Warning: **************************************************

thisisatestacc · May 26th 2019

it says its running but i still cant start a scheduled scan. (tried it w/ the webGUI)

votdev · May 26th 2019

I came across an privileges problem while testing this issue. I've opened a PR for discussion: https://github.com/openmediavault/openmediavault/pull/381

thisisatestacc · May 26th 2019

oh i see. you have that issue marked as a bug. so what can i do right now? manually run clamav using the terminal?

votdev · May 26th 2019

As told in the github pull request you have to set the privileges for the clamav user or group for every shared folder that is scanned by clamav.

thisisatestacc · May 26th 2019

ok so looks like its working. however i get this error on some files. http://pasteall.org/pic/0be1411adab4eee3279c2207d1461240

votdev · May 26th 2019

Did some more research... Closed PR because it is NOT necessary to adapt the privileges for clamdscan. It seems ClamAV requires some time to settle up after a scan job has been created and the configuration has been applied. After 30 seconds or so i was able to scan a shared folder as expected.

votdev · May 26th 2019

Quote from thisisatestacc

ok so looks like its working. however i get this error on some files. http://pasteall.org/pic/0be1411adab4eee3279c2207d1461240

It seems you have too less memory to allow ClamAV to perform the scan.

thisisatestacc · May 26th 2019

looks like you are right. i just monitored cpu usage levels while it was scanning a few files. it was almost 99 % . n=and the nas was notably performing slow. so i have decided to ditch this whole clamav thing. what i think im gonna do is to schedule a scan every month using my PC's own antivirus software.
tho, thanks for your time and you commitment to this thread.

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