On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 09:40:22AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Sep 5, 2006, at 6:30 AM, Erez Epstein wrote: > >I'm using clamscan and not clamd. > >is it better to use clamd for the scan? > > clamdscan is somewhat more efficient than clamscan, so clamdscan is > therefore generally preferred. > > However, note that clamdscan works using the permissions that the > clamd daemon runs as (commonly a "clamd" user), which means that > clamdscan may not be able to read all files, whereas a clamscan as > root will be able to read everything...
If you are running periodic scans, there are no benefits from the faster startup time that clamd(scan) provides. As clamd could be dead or hanged, it is even less robust in that case. Cheers, Henrik _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
