How to fix: clamd AntiVirus daemon giving local socket error while starting.

[sajugovind]

Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: ERROR: LOCAL: Socket file /var/clamd could not be bound: Permission denied
ERROR: Can’t unlink the socket file /var/clamd

Solution:

1. Open clamd.conf
vi /etc/clamd.conf
2. Comment the below lines by giving # infront of the line.

LocalSocket unix:/var/run/clamav/clamd.sock
FixStaleSocket yes

This will fix the error.