I have just run a ‘yum update’ on a CentOS 7.2 server which updated several hundred RPMs.

The update worked fine with no errors or warnings

I then rebooted the server and now my EXIM is rejecting emails because the clamd service isn’t running.

So I tried:

[root@ollie2 ~]# systemctl restart clamd.exim Failed to restart clamd.exim.service: Unit clamd.exim.service failed to load:
No such file or directory.
[root@ollie2 ~]# systemctl list-unit-files –type=service|grep -i exim exim.service enabled
[root@ollie2 ~]# systemctl list-unit-files –type=service|grep -i clam clamd.service enabled clamd@.service static
[root@ollie2 ~]# systemctl restart clamd
[root@ollie2 ~]# systemctl status clamd
● clamd.service – Home brewed module for the Clam Antivirus scanner
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Wed 2016-05-04 16:34:16 BST; 5s ago
Process: 14405 ExecStart=/root/bin/clamd.start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 14405 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

May 04 16:34:16 ollie2.ringways.co.uk systemd[1]: Unit clamd.service entered failed state. May 04 16:34:16 ollie2.ringways.co.uk systemd[1]: clamd.service failed. May 04 16:34:16 ollie2.ringways.co.uk systemd[1]: clamd.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. May 04 16:34:16 ollie2.ringways.co.uk systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for clamd.service May 04 16:34:16 ollie2.ringways.co.uk systemd[1]: Failed to start Home brewed module for the Clam Antivirus scanner. May 04 16:34:16 ollie2.ringways.co.uk systemd[1]: Unit clamd.service entered failed state. May 04 16:34:16 ollie2.ringways.co.uk systemd[1]: clamd.service failed.
[root@ollie2 ~]#

Can anyone tell me what happened to clamd.exim, and what I need to do to get it working again. For now I’ve had to comment out:

# Deny if the message contains a virus. Before enabling this check, you
# must install a virus scanner and set the av_scanner option above.
#
deny set acl_m0 = clamd:/var/run/clamd.exim/clamd.sock
malware = *
set acl_c_SPAM = 1
message = A virus has been detected ($malware_name).