On Friday 05 January 2018 14:11:51 Andreas Schulze wrote: > Am 04.01.2018 um 19:37 schrieb Paul B.: > > Hi, > > I just installed ClamAv on a desktop Linux machine. I would like to > > set it up using aliases in the bashrc file, so I can do various > > kinds of file and directory scans from the command line. Rather than > > an unwieldy string of exclusions in the alias' command line, I would > > like to have a file that lists exclusions, which Clam would > > reference. I've seen mention of this ability, but not enough info to > > get me started. I do not have the daemon installed, just ClamAv, and > > FreshClam for updates. > > Hello Paul, > > you're not alone. see > https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12001 If others also > thinks it's a useful feature, please document the use cases in that > ticket. > > Andreas
That unfortunately requires I setup yet another account. So I will post here, and if you think its worth adding to the bug report, please do so. Amanda, the best backup suit of utils about, has this feature in the form of an exclude file, which can be unique to each client as they reside on the individual client. It looks something like this: rock64@rock64:/GenesAmandaHelper-0.61$ cat excludes ./efi ./srv ./proc ./sys ./run ./media ./sshnet ./tmp ./dev Where each of those lines is a directory not to be read and the contents incorporated into a backup. By anchoring it to the present directory it has cd'd to in its traversal of a machines contents, that directory and its subdirs are all skipped. In the above listing ./efi is a vfat filesystem mounted to a subdir of an ext4 filesystem. Tar will not switch filesystems, so that directory is backed up by a separate entry in the disklist with a profile that does not include the above file. ./media and ./sshnet are mountpoints that let me treat 7 machines as essentially one big filesystem for sharing code between machines. The rest are virtual memory filesystems that should never be part of a backup since they are created by the running systems. Each disklist entry on the server machine can have its own backup "profile" and this profile stanza in amanda.conf is where the location of this excludes file is specified. Simple, elegant, and it Just Works(TM). And its been that way for the 20 years I have been backing up my stuff with amanda. > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > 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> _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
