Noel Jones wrote:
At 09:42 AM 9/8/2006, mcd wrote:
This is an interesting approach, but let me explain a little more. I
will be
running md5sums for every file on a system. I will then compare that
list of
md5sums against a list of md5sums that are know to be virus free. The
files
that do not have valid md5sums in the database will then need to be
scanned.
In a lot of situations this list of files will be in the thousands. At
this
point would I be better off calling clamscan to scan the entire disk, or
call clamscan 10,000+ times with unknown files? I hope I am making this
clear. Thanks for all of your help.
cat big.list.of.files | xargs clamscan
xargs is still limited by max line length, so this needs to be done with
care. Perl can also be used in place of clamdscan to feed file names to
clamd (which must be run as root). The advantage of Perl is it can
iterate over an array and of course manage all the logging.
dp
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