Hello! i was wondering i you would possibly be able to help me with a predicament i am having with setting up squidclamav on my server? whenever i go to run squid i keep on having a problem where although squid will run, it will display this error whenever it is accessed 2012/04/09 23:59:32| optional ICAP service is down after an options fetch failure: icap://localhost:1344/squidclamav [down,!opt] and i've tried pretty much every tutorial out there for this but all have resulted in the same thing :/ any input would be greatly appreciated as i have not been able to find much on this specific error in google, thank you! if any additional information is needed please let me know as i was not sure if it would be worth posting at this time being that i do not really know if this is just some simple fix or something of the sort

is this the right section to post in? As i would really appreciate some help with this problem, but if its just the fact that nobody plans on replying to me, then would you guys have any recommendations as to what forum i should post to for help?

First, people here VOLUNTEER their time to help folks, so complaining about how no one has answered you (less than 24 hours after you posted), is fairly rude. Second, since you bumped your own thread YOU removed it from the zero-reply list, making it LESS VISIBLE.

You don't provide any details (version/distro of Linux? Squid? ClamAV? Which tutorial you followed?), so it's hard to be specific, but the general error has some solutions posted, as does the [down,!opt].
http://kabs.homeunix.org/user/pc/sysadmin/squid-clamav
http://c-icap.sourceforge.net/install.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/squid-us.../msg71167.html

sorry about that had thought that it was less likely to be replied to once it moved down the list as i had posted a few questions a while back (few years ago) but had never received a reply which had made me assume that they were just not being seen, was just unsure about the turnaround time for replies, my apologies if i had come off as rude as i did not intend to. thank-you for replying with those links but unfortunately i had already come across those over the last few days, the first one (kabs.homeunix) seemed to be the most promising, being that it had the exact line at the bottom of the page, but it did not state how to fix it though, unless i am just reading it wrong as i had used google translate to translate the page into english, the section in particular being in this screenshot http://i.imgur.com/iDJbB.png . do you by any chance see anything pointing to a fix in that area? sorry again about being rude as well

also forgot to mention, here is my debian version Linux Kingston 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Jun 13 04:13:06 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux, squid version Squid Cache: Version 3.1.19-20120408-r10444, and my clamav version is ClamAV 0.97.3/14766/. and for the tutorials i have followed several which had all resulted in the same messages, http://squidclamav.darold.net/installv6.html being one of them