[robertlouwen]

Here is what I did:

[root@obelix ~]# ps aux | grep clamd.amavisd
amavis    1489  0.0  9.1 129324 93464 ?        Ssl  Apr05   0:22 clamd.amavisd -c /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf --pid /var/run/clamd.amavisd/clamd.pid
root     18947  0.0  0.0   4208   736 pts/0    S+   19:14   0:00 grep clamd.amavisd

to get the PID numbers.

Then

kill -9 1489

and

kill -9 18947 
-bash: kill: (18947) - No such process.

Ignoring this I went on with

rm -f /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock

and

/etc/init.d/clamd.amavisd start

and clamd.amavisd started without errors.

What will happen when I reboot my box ?

Thank you for your help.