Julio wrote: > I have set clamav to scan incoming mail, and for efficiency purposes > I have decided to use the daemon. ... > d) Using clamscan instead of the daemon will be less efficient?
The daemon should be started at system bootup. It will take care of starting additional daemonic threads as it sees fit. The drop-in substitute for clamscan is clamdscan - this will talk to clamd for you. clamdscan does require that clamd be running when you call clamdscan. Another thing to consider is freshclam. You can run freshclam as a daemon (freshclam -d), or periodically through cron (without the -d.) Do not run freshclamd -d through cron or you'll be running multiple daemons and eventually bring your machine to its knees. -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer perl -e"map{y/a-z/l-za-k/;print}shift" "Jjhi pcdiwtg Ptga wprztg," _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html