On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Lima Union <limaun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
Hi! just for the record, I think that this problem is related to SELinux, I'm running RH 5.4 and have disabled it and now clamdscan works without requiring an hyphen. Regards. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
