Dear If I do understand you I'll have to make a cronjob with clamscan command in it wich will scann my whole system specifying the folders I want it to scan.
Because i've been looking into the clamd.conf file but there is no option to specify the folders it has to scan. Thanks for your time and answers ! Frienly Regards Jens Snyers > Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 11:35:09 +0200 > From: uh...@fantomas.sk > To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > Subject: Re: [clamav-users] vscan-clamav > > On 16.05.13 09:40, jens s wrote: > >I'm a trainee and 1 of my tasks is to research antivirus software programs > > to be used on all linux production servers. > > > >What I dont understand quite yet is if clamav is scanning real time, I > >presume it is because it has a daemon. Please correct me if i'm wrong. > > ClamAV is running as daemon mostly because loading database into memory is > cpu expensive operation, while daemon can do it only once (per update) which > saves the cycles. > > Clamav is scanning what(ever) you ask it to scan, but it does not care > itself about what s that. > > You can feed the files/filenames to clamav to scan from external programs > like mail servers, FTP servers ... (samba?). > There is also a clamuko extension which requires dazukofs that can feed > files to clamav on access. > > >I'm also researching samba-vscan, I've downloaded the package and copied > > it to the samba folder I added following rules to the samba share : > > > >vfs objects = vscan-clamav > >vscan-clamav: config-file = /etc/samba/samba-vscan/clamav/vscan-clamav.conf > > > >And edited the samba-vscan file to my likings. If this is done will clamav > > scan the shared filesystem aswell ? > > apparently - haven't tried. > -- > Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ > Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. > Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. > BSE = Mad Cow Desease ... BSA = Mad Software Producents Desease > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
