[clamav-users] [EXTERN]Re: Is there an option to see the scan duration in the log?

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, Kreidenberg, Maximilian, 22D wrote:
> G.W. Haywood wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Kreidenberg, Maximilian, 22D wrote:
>>
>>> we are using clamav in our production environment and we need to find
>>> out how long a scan takes. ...
>>
>> It depends very much on how you're scanning things.
>> ... How are you scanning things?
>
> ... We are using ClamAV as a TCP/IP Socket Scanner. ...

Then you can simply send the scan output to a log, as in my example:

>> clamdscan /path/to/directory_to_be_scanned/ | logger -t 'ClamAV'

You can pipe the output from clamdscan through filters if you wish,
for example:

clamdscan /.../ | grep '\(Time\|Infected\)' | tee ... | logger ...

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73,
Ged.