You are right. The Agent was actually started several times. I killed all of the processes.
I started it again by using the "rc-service eset start" command. Then, I checked the status with "rc-service eset status" which returned "status: crashed", however, the logs suggest something very different (see attached).
According to the logs, it looks as if ESET was started correctly and is actually running just fine. It's just that rc-service returns a misleading message... But it defintely not an issue with ESET.
Thanks
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