On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Robert Wyatt <chupacerv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lima Union wrote:
> Hi Lima,
>
> I should let the experts answer, but I'll take a stab at it just to find out
> for myself. One of the differences between clamscan and clamdscan is that
> clamscan runs as the user requesting it whereas clamdscan runs as a special
> user (usually clamd, I believe), which would be in a special administrative
> category allowing it to read across multiple user's files.
>
> So you probably do not have a file permission problem per se and that is why
> the hyphen option is included so that when you run clamdscan as a normal
> user you can do what you were trying to do.
>
> I would recommend consulting "man clamdscan" for the options and
> descriptions. Let's see what others have to say.
>
> --Robert
>
Ok, thanks. From the man page:
(4) To scan from standard input:
clamdscan - <file_to_scan cat file_to_scan | clamdscan -
Anyway it's strange because from a Debian distro I can issue
clamadscan without the hyphen.
Best regards.
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