[ale] mounting an SD card

[Paul Cartwright]

On Thu June 29 2006 11:47 am, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Not sure... the web site (http://sial.org/howto/clamav/freshclam/)
> indicates that it should be using a UNIX domain socket, possibly
> at /var/run/clamd.sock -- have you attempted to see if the freshclam
> manual notifier for clamd works?
>
> From the freshclam site above:
> > Manually notify clamd.
> > The following perl command shows how to manually notify the clamd
> > daemon listening to the /var/run/clamd.sock socket file. The
> > location of the socket file will vary; check clamd.conf or use
> > lsof to find the exact location.
> > ? # perl -MIO::Socket::UNIX -we \
> > ? '$s = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(shift); \
> > ? $s->print("RELOAD"); print $s->getline; $s->close' \
> > ? /var/run/clamd.sock
> > ? RELOADING

no reloading, it said command not found- /var/run/clamd.sock
PaulsPC:/var/lib/clamav # find / -name clamd.sock -print
find: /media/floppy: No medium found
PaulsPC:/var/lib/clamav #    

ok, so I don't have a clamd.sock. so freshclam seems to be running, but 
I have no clamd process, am I actually doing anything?

and, to answer my own question, under system services, clamd was turned 
OFF...

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