On Tuesday 23 June 2015 13:24:11 MarkusGMX wrote: > Am 23/06/15 um 14:10 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Monday 22 June 2015 19:01:34 Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> And be careful if using the -l option of clamscan. > > > > And what might that result in? > > > > Warnings like that demand a scenario describing statement where it > > could backfire. > > Perhaps he is thinking of the case where all various clamscan write to > the same file?
While in the case of a fixed name logfile, I could see that happening, but in the case of quarrantining a suspect file, again to a fixed global name, that would appear to be solved automatically by the file locking mechanism and properly serialized. If that fails, then that OS has a heck of a lot worse problems than that & deserves what it got. > Thanks for all the answers. > > Does anybody have experience with (or even a ready script for) 'GNU > parallel' ? > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/GNU-Parallel.html > ls -d bin/* | parallel clamscan > looks easy but logging may be difficult in this case too. > > Are there plans to put multithreading to clamscan too? > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
