im looking on getting avast running on gentoo also, its just there init script so there gotta be a way to rewrite it to work.

looks like there trying to use the daemon @

gentoo uses

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec

going to try this and see if it works

cannot get the application avastd nor avastguard to run at all. even manually

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --exec /usr/sbin/avastd

or

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --exec /usr/sbin/avastguard

or

/usr/sbin/avastd
/usr/sbin/avastgaurd

looking in the error log files /var/log/avast/avastd

and theres nothing in it, but it is generated. looks like it just opens then dies :confused: