[clamav-users] Help With clamscan vs clamdscan

[Maarten Broekman]

Check the logs and config files.
Clamscan loads the databases itself before running. It does not need clamd to be running in order to work.

Clamdscan attempts to use a socket to talk with clamd for the scanning of files. If there is an error, one of two things is happening:
Either the permissions on the socket aren’t allow clamdscan (as you) to use it,
Or clamd isn’t listening on it.

Maarten

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> On Aug 20, 2018, at 06:55, Michael Newman <mgnewman at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Mac 10.13.6
> 
> clamd is running:
> 
> MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ ps -A | grep -m1 clamd
> 31610 ??         0:10.14 clamd
> 
> When I run clamscan it works and detects a known problem.
> 
> But, when I run clamdscan on the same directory, it just instantly stops without scanning.
> 
> What have I done wrong?
> 
> MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ clamscan -i ~/bin
> /Users/mnewman/bin/wacaw: Osx.Malware.Agent-1760787 FOUND
> 
> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> Known viruses: 6615382
> Engine version: 0.100.1
> Scanned directories: 1
> Scanned files: 58
> Infected files: 1
> Data scanned: 0.24 MB
> Data read: 0.18 MB (ratio 1.30:1)
> Time: 10.544 sec (0 m 10 s)
> 
> MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ clamdscan -i ~/bin
> 
> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> Infected files: 0
> Total errors: 1
> Time: 0.000 sec (0 m 0 s)
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