diff --git a/app-antivirus/clamav/files/clamav-milter.rc b/app-antivirus/clamav/files/clamav-milter.rc
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+#!/sbin/runscript
+# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: $
+
+depend() {
+    need clamd
+}
+
+start() {
+    if [ -z "${MILTER_CONF_FILE}" ]; then
+        MILTER_CONF_FILE="/etc/clamav-milter.conf"
+    fi
+    
+    logfix
+    
+    local milter_socket=`awk '$1 == "MilterSocket" { print $2 }' /etc/clamav-milter.conf | grep unix: | sed -e 's/unix://'`
+    if [ -S "${milter_socket}" ]; then
+        rm -f ${milter_socket}
+    fi
+    
+    ebegin "Starting clamav-milter"
+    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
+	--nicelevel ${MILTER_NICELEVEL:-0} \
+	--exec /usr/sbin/clamav-milter -- -c "${MILTER_CONF_FILE}"
+
+    retcode=$?
+    if [ ${retcode} != 0 ]; then
+	eend ${retcode}
+	#necessary to tell openrc that freshclam actually _isn't_ running
+	return ${retcode}
+    fi
+    
+    if [ x$milter_socket != x ]; then
+	local milter_socket_wait_count=0
+	local milter_socket_wait_max=10
+	local milter_socket_wait_result=-1
+	ebegin "Waiting for clamav-milter to create ${milter_socket}"
+	while (( milter_socket_wait < milter_socket_wait_max )); do
+            if [ -S "${milter_socket:-/tmp/clamd}" ]; then
+		milter_socket_wait_result=0
+		break
+            else
+		echo -n " ."
+		let milter_socket_wait++
+		sleep 1
+            fi
+	done
+	echo
+	eend $milter_socket_wait_result "Timeout waiting for ${milter_socket}"
+
+	if [ $milter_socket_wait_result = 0 ]; then
+	    chown "${SOCKET_USER:-clamav}:${SOCKET_GROUP:-milter}" "${milter_socket}"
+	    chmod 770 "${milter_socket}"
+	fi
+    fi
+    eend ${retcode}
+}
+
+stop() {
+    ebegin "Stopping clamav-milter"
+    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/clamav-milter
+    eend $?
+}
+
+logfix() {
+    # fix freshclam log permissions
+    # (might be clobbered by logrotate or something)
+    logfile=`awk '$1 == "LogFile" { print $2 }' "${MILTER_CONF_FILE}"`
+    local freshclam_user=`awk '$1 == "User" { print $2 }' "${MILTER_CONF_FILE}"`
+    if [ -n "${logfile}" -a -n "${clamav_user}" ]; then
+        if [ ! -f "${logfile}" ]; then
+            touch ${logfile}
+        fi
+        chown ${freshclam_user} ${logfile}
+        chmod 640 ${logfile}
+    fi
+}