[clamav-users] using clamdscan and clamd to do complete file system scan

[Steven Morgan]

Clamdscan with clamd should scan directories recursively. Check out clamd
configuration parameters FollowDirectorySymlinks and FollowFileSymlinks in
case they apply.

Steve

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:33 PM, John McGowan <john at lynch2.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been banging my head trying to figure this out on my own for the
> better part of a day now.  I'm running Amazon Linux, have got the
> proper clamav packages installed to have the following stuff working.
>
> * clamd is running
> * clamscan runs from the command line
> * clamdscan runs from the command line
>
> However, clamdscan doesn't recursively crawl the file system, it only
> seems to want to scan a single file.
>
> Before i craft a "find | xargs clamdscan" type of solution for this,
> can I just get confirmation that recursive scanning with just
> clamdscan is not possible?
>
> I suspect that most people use clamdscan to do "one off" scanning,
> (mail servers, etc)
>
> In my use case I want to leverage clamd, so that I can take advantage
> of the SysLogging capabilities of clamd, but I'm looking for more of a
> traditional daily "scan the entire file system" solution.
>
> --
> /John
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