Hello list, I retrieved amavisd-sendmail.rpm (23-Oct-2002) from people/link/amavis/SuSE/8.1 for mail scanning incoming and outgoing mail on my new SuSE8.1 server running sendmail 8.12.6 coming with 8.1. I also retrieved the missing Perl-modules and changed the /etc/amavisd.conf go my virus-scann f-prot. A "rcamavis start" gives me: Starting virus-scanning for sendmail (amavis): starting amavis-milter failed starting amavisd done and in /var/log/messages Jan 14 16:04:02 imladris amavis-milter: amavis-milter: Unable to bind to port local:/var/run/amavis/amavis-milter.sock: No such file or direct ory Jan 14 16:04:02 imladris amavis-milter: amavis-milter: Unable to create listening socket on conn local:/var/run/amavis/amavis-milter.sock I must say that I have no clue what to do or where to look anymore (googling didn't take me further...). On my old system with SuSE7.3 I just installed the rpm of amavis-sendmail (non-daemon version) which nearly ran out of the box. Now I upgraded some memory in my server and I wanted to switch to amavisd (I also tried also the amavis-sendmail of 8.1, but somehow it didn't scan my mail). I also know that I should some more things about m4, sendmail and so on, but for time-saving I wanted to use the prepared RPM. Heeeelp! ;-) Please! -- Eat, sleep and go running, David Huecking. Encrypted eMail welcome! GnuPG/ PGP-Key: 0x57809216. Fingerprint: 3DF2 CBE0 DFAA 4164 02C2 4E2A E005 8DF7 5780 9216