[clamav-users] OnAccessExcludePath being ignored.

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, CROFT Ian wrote:

> But when I put an EICAR test txt file in /var/log/test.txt it is getting picked up by the OnAccess scanner.
>
> I have tried ^/var/log/ and ^/var/log/* - same issue the test.txt is still picked up by the OnAccess scanner when it should in my mind be being ignored.
>
> Any ideas ?

You really do need to get used to reading the 'man' pages.

In this case the man page for clamd.conf states

        OnAccessExcludePath STRING

which means that the argument is a STRING, not a REGEX.

You must not put things like '^' and '*' in a STRING argument
because a STRING is taken literally.  You are excluding names
which do not exist on your system.

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73,
Ged.