Dennis Peterson wrote:
René Bellora wrote:
This sounded like a good idea, so I gave it a try. After spending a
few hours to script the softlinks I got it to work for small file
lists, but it still doesn't work for lots of files (~5000). When I
run 'clamscan /tmp/clamscan/*' I get the following error:
/usr/bin/clamscan: Argument list too long
this could be circumvented with xargs:
cd /tmp/clamscan
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 clamscan
Assumes Linux, or at least gnu find and xargs, but also the files are
soft links so the -type f automatically fails.
Also, I believe the OP was interested in finding a way to scan all the
files from a single invocation of clamscan and xargs won't necessarily
do that.
As the requirements have evolved it seems more likely a Perl solution is
most attractive both for creating the list and for logging the results.
And it will eliminate the earlier suggestion of using soft links. This
looks interesting:
http://www.fpsn.net/index.cgi?pg=products&product=File::Scan::ClamAV
That's not a bad suggestion. It would take me some time to get that
working since I'm a novice at Perl, but it give me a project.
It allows sending files as streams to clamd so there is only a single
invocation of perl and clamd is presumed already running.
Finally, it is still possible to hack clamscan to read in a file that
contains a list of names of files to scan.
I logged an enhancement request on bugzilla, but I don't expect it will
get a very high priority.
--
Chris
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