[clamav-users] OnAccessExcludePath being ignored.

[CROFT Ian]

It's a fair point Ged well made.

And making sure they are all strings looks better now in most cases.

So I now have these :-

OnAccessIncludePath /var/log ( Only added to include to get around the bug previously mentioned )
OnAccessIncludePath /var

OnAccessExcludePath /var/log

However eicar test as /var/log/test.txt is still being picked up.

Its working fine on other real sub directories ( not separate munts ), feels like this is falling foul of the fact /var/log is a sub mount point perhaps.

Cheers

Ian




-----Original Message-----
From: clamav-users <clamav-users-bounces at lists.clamav.net> On Behalf Of G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Sent: 26 September 2019 10:22
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
Cc: G.W. Haywood <clamav at jubileegroup.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [clamav-users] OnAccessExcludePath being ignored.

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.

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