[clamav-users] Clamd vs clamscan

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 10.02.16 05:29, Brad Scalio wrote:
>I've seen a lot of fodder on clamd vs clamscan, running 0.99 on RHEL6.7
>exit/entry points ... While it's easy enough to use clamscan via cron, is
>there any good stepwise SOP on getting clamd to work permission wise to
>scan all filesystem?

For the case of any bug in clamd, it should not be able to scan private
files. 

>  I like the ability to have it all controlled via the
>daemon, easier to enforce configurations via puppet, easier quick checking
>and tweaking of conf, etc ... Apologies if I missed the page or doc, but
>been googling for months to find a simple guide.
>
>If clamscan is the preferred way, I'm fine with that, just not sure why
>there's a daemon then?  Is it for on-access, more for other OS installs?

clamscan is not the preferred way. There are cases where clamscan is better.

However: how many infections are there for linux system that you want to
scan it all? The most common usage of clamav is to scan mail going through
system and scan filesystems shared to windows machines.
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