The inotify-tools may be useful in this case. An example like in https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/automatically-detecting-files-placed-in-my-downloads-directory-in-gentoo-linux-and-scanning-them-for-viruses/ should work.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 1:06 PM <giovanni+cla...@paclan.it> wrote: > > On 10/21/20 4:08 AM, Olivier via clamav-users wrote: > > Hi > > > >> I would like to know what would be the best way to do a virus scan of > changed or new files only. I > >> want to run a daily scan of changed and new files during weekdays and > run a full scan on > >> weekends. > >> > >> I did some search and was able to find a few ways of doing it but I > would also like your suggestions. > > > > There is that daemon that can report any changed files in an operating > > system, I known I played witg it many years ago as I wanted somethiung > > able to scan anything on the fly. It was on FreeBSD, but such daemon > > should exist for Linux too and it could send the files/filenames to the > > scanning daemon. > > > you could use incrond(8) which uses the inotify(2) interface to scan for > changed files, this can be used to produce a list of files that will be > scanned later. > > Giovanni > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > -- Regards.... Nibin. https://about.me/nibinvm
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