RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-14 Thread Micha Silver
> -Original Message- > From: Tomasz Kojm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 6:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan > vs clamdscan > > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:36:18 +0200 >

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-11 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:36:18 +0200 Micha Silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > faster but clamd dies every so often. So we need the perl script, > > > > Which version of clamd ? > > I have installed 0.65 What does (exactly) "clamd dies every so often" mean ? Do you suspect something ? Best r

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-10 Thread Micha Silver
> -Original Message- > From: Tomasz Kojm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 12:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan > vs clamdscan > > > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 21:04:50 +0200 >

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-10 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 21:04:50 +0200 Micha Silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > faster but clamd dies every so often. So we need the perl script, Which version of clamd ? Best regards, Tomasz Kojm -- oo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ClamAV.net (\/)\. http://w

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-10 Thread clamav
At 11:04 AM 1/10/2004, Micha Silver wrote: Tomasz Papszun wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 at 12:07:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please be attentive to attributions. I wrote none of the text in this message, though it is attributed to me above. $ clamscan Worm.Yaha.Y.msg Worm.Yaha.Y.msg: OK --

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Micha, On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 14:04, Micha Silver wrote: > So we need the perl script, > clamdwatch, contributed by Mike running every minute as a cron job. To be honest, I've only had clamd die ~3 times in almost a year of production use. I don't consider this acceptable, but the alternatives I

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-10 Thread Micha Silver
Tomasz Papszun wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 at 12:07:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ clamscan Worm.Yaha.Y.msg Worm.Yaha.Y.msg: OK --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 19802 Scanned directories: 0 Scanned files: 1 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 0.08 Mb I/O buffer size: 131072

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-10 Thread Peter Bonivart
Hasn't there been problems with the stability of clamd for a long time? Are those problems solved now? I use MailScanner and it sends batches of files to scan so the speed difference is negligible and I don't have to worry about if clamd has stopped. Anyway, I find that it takes more time for S

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-10 Thread clamav
At 01:11 PM 1/9/2004, Tomasz Papszun wrote: A gigantic difference (as shown in my previous message) is caused by wasting much time for launching the program (clamscan) and loading a database into memory (while clamd has it loaded _already_). But when you scan many files at once, you execute clamsca

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:07:16 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > which is really weird. clamdscan took 3 seconds *longer*, butit also > found three times as many viruses as clamscan (that's weird in itself, > since all the messages in the quarantine were put there by clamscan!) That's because clamd

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 at 12:07:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hmm. while i am seeing a gigantic difference in 'real' scanning of incoming > messages, here's what i get from scanning my existing quarantine dir > between the two: > > with 880 files in the quarantine, > > clamdscan: > -

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Lars Kristiansen
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Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Noel Jones
At 02:07 PM 1/9/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm. while i am seeing a gigantic difference in 'real' scanning of incoming messages, here's what i get from scanning my existing quarantine dir between the two: with 880 files in the quarantine, When scanning a large number of files all at once, mos

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Mário Luis Ghoneim
sec (0 m 7 s) real0m7.233s user0m6.380s sys 0m0.780s [ ]'s Mário - Original Message - From: "Tomasz Papszun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clams

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Jim Maul
I tried the test mentioned below and noticed my times were almost identical. I found the cause of this to be that my clamdscan was symlinked to clamscan so they were 1 and the same. Then i recalled a step from the qmailrocks (www.qmailrocks.org) installation instructions that says to rename clamd

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread clamav
At 11:53 AM 1/9/2004, Tomasz Papszun wrote: A simple comparison (very rough, but shows the idea): $ time clamscan /etc/services /etc/services: OK --- SCAN SUMMARY --- [...] Data scanned: 0.01 Mb I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 0.721 sec (0 m 0 s) real0m0.726s user0m0.68

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 at 13:38:54 -0600, Noel Jones wrote: > [...] > Very generally expect 10x or so speed improvement using clamdscan rather > than clamscan with an MTA, but results will vary widely. Your reported > scan time improvement seems quite possible. > A simple comparison (very rough,

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Jim Maul
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Walsh > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs > clamdscan > > > > The diffe

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread clamav
At 11:31 AM 1/9/2004, Shayne Lebrun wrote: >thanks. i suspect my invocation needs to be different - when i switch from >clamscan to clamdscan, messages are processed - for example - rather than >taking 10 seconds, 20 seconds, etc with clamscan, they claim 'ok' in .1 >seconds, .7 seconds, etc - wh

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Noel Jones
At 01:19 PM 1/9/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:09 AM 1/9/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks. i suspect my invocation needs to be different - when i switch from clamscan to clamdscan, messages are processed - for example - rather than taking 10 seconds, 20 seconds, etc with clamscan, they

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Shayne Lebrun
>thanks. i suspect my invocation needs to be different - when i switch from >clamscan to clamdscan, messages are processed - for example - rather than >taking 10 seconds, 20 seconds, etc with clamscan, they claim 'ok' in .1 >seconds, .7 seconds, etc - which doesn't seem possible. Actually, tha

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > following up on my own message here - the name clamdscan implies a daemon > unto itself, that's why it seems - odd - if clamdscan is to be invoked the Ah. Therein lies your problem. clamdscan means "scan by sending to clamd" .

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > following up on my own message here - the name clamdscan implies a daemon > unto itself, that's why it seems - odd - if clamdscan is to be invoked the > same as clamscan. If clamdscan is to run persistently, i'd expect it to be > started up

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread clamav
At 11:09 AM 1/9/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks. i suspect my invocation needs to be different - when i switch from clamscan to clamdscan, messages are processed - for example - rather than taking 10 seconds, 20 seconds, etc with clamscan, they claim 'ok' in .1 seconds, .7 seconds, etc -

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Payal Rathod
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:09:34AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > thanks. i suspect my invocation needs to be different - when i switch from > clamscan to clamdscan, messages are processed - for example - rather than > taking 10 seconds, 20 seconds, etc with clamscan, they claim 'ok' in .1 >

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > thanks. i suspect my invocation needs to be different - when i switch from > clamscan to clamdscan, messages are processed - for example - rather than > taking 10 seconds, 20 seconds, etc with clamscan, they claim 'ok' in .1 > seconds, .7 seconds, etc

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread clamav
At 10:47 AM 1/9/2004, Daniel J McDonald wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 12:18, Jim Maul wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > i installed clamav via the instructions quite a long time ago. > > i run it via > > > qmail-scanner. clamd is running, and messages are scanned by >

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 12:18, Jim Maul wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > i installed clamav via the instructions quite a long time ago. > > i run it via > > > qmail-scanner. clamd is running, and messages are scanned by > > clamscan. so > > > where does clamdscan come

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Tom Walsh
> The difference between up and down is that one is up and one > is down. Very profound, and not very helpful. Why bother > answering if the answer in no way provides any explanation? Why bother responding only to chide the response for its lack of content with more banter with similarly lackin

RE: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Jim Maul
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Christopher X. Candreva > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs > clamdscan > &g

Re: [Clamav-users] pretty basic question - clamscan vs clamdscan

2004-01-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i installed clamav via the instructions quite a long time ago. i run it via > qmail-scanner. clamd is running, and messages are scanned by clamscan. so > where does clamdscan come in?? there's very little mention of clamdscan in Use clandscan instead