I OT'd this since it is supplied by dag and not centos but running on centos 3.5 # service clamav-milter start Starting Clamav Milter Daemon: clamav-milter: --timeout must not be given if --external is not given I updated last week and didn't have any problems. I did restart the system today and for some reason cannot get clamav-milter to start ;-( Any hints - afaik - nothing changed... # cat /etc/sysconfig/clamav-milter ### Simple config file for clamav-milter, you should ### read the documentation and tweak it as you wish. CLAMAV_FLAGS=" --config-file=/etc/clamd.conf --max-children=10 --force-scan --quiet --dont-log-clean --noreject -obl local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.sock " Craig