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OK, can someone please explain the systemctl for me? Apparently the /etc/init.d/{daemon script} has changed from other distributions.

I am trying to restart the clamd daemon, a Mageia provided package. Here is what I am performing and receiving:

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[root@ns init.d]# service clamd restart
Restarting clamd (via systemctl):  Job for clamd.service failed. See 'systemctl status clamd.service' and 'journalctl -n' for details.
                                                                [FAILED]

So investigating the error message, here is what I see

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[root@ns ~]# systemctl status clamd.service
clamd.service - LSB: An AntiVirus Server
          Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd)
          Active: activating (start) since Sat, 2013-12-07 19:22:57 EST; 12s ago
         Control: 7829 (clamd)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/clamd.service
                  â 5833 clamd
                  â 7829 /bin/sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd start
                  â 7844 /bin/bash -c ulimit -S -c 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 ; clam...
                  â 7845 clamd

Dec 07 19:22:56 ns.IT-Security-inc.com systemd[1]: Starting LSB: An AntiVirus...
Dec 07 19:22:57 ns.IT-Security-inc.com clamd[7845]: clamd daemon 0.97.8 (OS: ...
Dec 07 19:22:57 ns.IT-Security-inc.com clamd[7845]: Running as user defang (U...
Dec 07 19:22:57 ns.IT-Security-inc.com clamd[7845]: Log file size limited to ...
Dec 07 19:22:57 ns.IT-Security-inc.com clamd[7845]: Reading databases from /v...
Dec 07 19:22:57 ns.IT-Security-inc.com clamd[7845]: Not loading PUA signatures.
Dec 07 19:22:57 ns.IT-Security-inc.com clamd[7845]: Bytecode: Security mode s...
Dec 07 19:23:08 ns.IT-Security-inc.com clamd[7845]: Loaded 3007090 signatures.

Unfortunately the same clamd daemon is still running. The restart does not appear to work. What is interfering with this?

Well restart works, but some job started by clamd didn't come back with return code 0 probably, that's what systemd tells you exactly:

Job for clamd.service failed. See 'systemctl status clamd.service' and 'journalctl -n' for details.

Please use a wider terminal so the output is not truncated and run again

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systemctl -n75 -a status clamd.service

or use

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journalctl -a --no-pager -n75 -u clamd

to see the last 75 lines of clamd related logs.