Jim Popovitch said: > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 14:22 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> >> clamd is useful for testing for viruses on the file system in addition >> to >> any email viruses. clamav-milter handles only email. They are not >> exclusive tools. > > ;-) OK, I understand their purposes, but maybe I (or maybe others) > don't understand how they work. Are you saying that clamav-milter is a > wholly contained AV process that does NOT require clamd? Why then is > there a common local socket or network interface setup between the two? > > -Jim P.
The current version of clamav includes clamd functionality in the clamav-milter. It was not always so. It also didn't work in the first couple releases but the current release candidate appears to have the problems solved. You may or may not need clamav-milter. I don't use it as I have another milter that replaces it functionally, and uses clamd. You may or may not need clamd to run depending on whether you wish your scanner to run on the same box as your milter. I have a distributed system where Sendmail is on several boxes and the milter/scanners are on others. This gives me excellent load management and because I can migrate functionality around to different systems I can also take one or more out of service for maintenance. The milter I use also does content scanning and behavior monitoring. I think but don't know for certain that clamav-milter provides only virus scanning. There are other milters that do multi-purpose operations and so it is possible to avoid adding another milter by selecting a multi-purpose milter instead. These are architecture issues that you can explore as you develop your email environment. You just need to understand there is no single perfect way to deploy this tool, but because there are many architecture options, one or more may be more suitable for you than others. Some considerations would include monitoring critical processes and restarting them if they should fail, system performance, scalability, maintainability. It finally becomes your choice as to what works best for you and your environment. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
