amavis-clamav fails

[Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>]

Hi,

Running postfix/amavis/clamav on my mail server; of late (last week or
two) I'm seeing error messages in syslog:

Dec 27 13:52:43 vanderhoff amavis[18681]: (18681-03) ESMTP::10024
/var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20121227T130337-18681:
<bounce-debian-user=lists_0711=vanderhoff.org@lists.debian.org> ->
<tony@vanderhoff.org> SIZE=5530 Received: from vanderhoff.org
([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vanderhoff.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new,
port 10024) with ESMTP for <tony@vanderhoff.org>; Thu, 27 Dec 2012
13:52:43 +0000 (GMT)
Dec 27 13:52:43 vanderhoff amavis[18681]: (18681-03) Checking:
qrJCYwQLf+d7 [82.195.75.100]
<bounce-debian-user=lists_0711=vanderhoff.org@lists.debian.org> ->
<tony@vanderhoff.org>
Dec 27 13:52:43 vanderhoff amavis[18681]: (18681-03) ClamAV-clamd: Can't
send to socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: Transport endpoint is not
connected, retrying (1)
Dec 27 13:52:44 vanderhoff amavis[18681]: (18681-03) (!)ClamAV-clamd:
Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or
directory, retrying (2)
Dec 27 13:52:51 vanderhoff amavis[18681]: (18681-03) (!)ClamAV-clamd
av-scanner FAILED: run_av error: Too many retries to talk to
/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (Can't connect to UNIX socket
/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory) at (eval 103) line
373.\n
Dec 27 13:52:51 vanderhoff amavis[18681]: (18681-03) (!!)WARN: all
primary virus scanners failed, considering backups

I've tried restarting clamav-daemon, amavis and postscript; no obvious
error messages, and the problem persists.

Can anyone please suggest what's going wrong?

Cheers, Tony
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