Hi all,

I have ClamAV installed on my server for email scanning. How do I get amavisd and spamd to start with the system considering I need to start spamd with its -d option.

Thanks in advance

What distro are you running?
Essentially, you want to either edit the entries for both services in /etc/rc.d/rcNUMBER.d (where NUMBER is the number of the runlevel you want to affect) or, if they don't exist, create them. Fedora and RedHat simplify this by using 'chkconfig' to control what services start automatically for what runlevels.

The /etc directories rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rc3.d, rc4.d, rc5.d and rc6.d contain soft links to the startup scripts in /etc/init.d. They are named after the names of the scripts they link to, with either a capital S or K and a two-digit number between 01 and 99 prepended: for instance, a shortcut to /etc/init.d/httpd would be /etc/rc3.d/S85httpd. Those with an S will start on bootup, those with a K will not. The number designates the order in which the services start. A link to /etc/init.d/httpd that would start the httpd daemon automatically upon entering runlevel 3 would be /etc/rc3.d/S85httpd; to disable it manually rename it to K15httpd (notice the change in number, the number following the K is the number following the S subtracted from 100). You can also do it the cheap way and add calls to the binaries in /etc/rc.local, which contains a list of stuff executed after booting into all multi-user runlevels.

This method is kind of a hassle; chkconfig not only allows you to be lazier but cuts down on room for human error as well. If you have Fedora or RedHat I'd recommend using chkconfig, if not, get familiar with the ln command and basic shell scripting.

He's on CentOS 5 (at least on another post he was).

It depends on how you installed stuff.

If you'd used yum, then all you would need to do is type

chkconfig amavisd on (ditto for clamd and spammassassin in place of amavisd).

However, if you've installed from source (which I think you have), then you will need to copy the init scripts to /etc/init.s (see if they are there already, they will probably be called "amavisd", etc). You can then use

chkconfig --add amavisd (making sure the file name matches the one in /etc/init, ditto for the other two apps).

Cheers guys. And it is CentOS 5 sorry for leaving that out.