[clamav-users] Why clamdscan and clamscan may give different results

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>On Jan 8, 2020, at 18:25, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>> It seems to be because clamscan does not respect the options in clamd.conf...

On 08.01.20 18:38, Al Varnell via clamav-users wrote:
>That's correct and AFAIK, has always been the case.  clamscan
> configurations is accomplished during the compile stage leading to
> installation and clamd.conf options only apply to clamd and clamdscan.

you can pass options to clamscan on command line.

clamscan is not clamd, therefore it does not pass clamd's config file.
We can of course ask why there's no common config file for all clamav
programs (maybe clamav libeary) but that is another issue.


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