[clamav-users] ClamAV - What does the “clamd at scan” service do by default?

[Graeme Fowler]

Howdy

So... clamd at scan is a system service which is used on RedHat derived systems via variants of the EPEL packed version of ClamAV.

By itself it does nothing. You need to tell it what to do by use of the clamdscan binary, which passes file contents/file names/file descriptors (depending on configuration) to the listening clamd service.

It's possible to create multiple clamd services by creating different config files in /etc/clamd.d/, which are then referenced by different clamd@ service names - so for example clamd at scan, clamd at mail etc.

If you want to do a daily scan, the basic command would be:

                clamdscan /

...but you need to configure clamd in /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf to do this.

More details for EPEL based ClamAV packages are here:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/clamav
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/clamav/blob/master/f/clamd-README

Graeme




From: clamav-users <clamav-users-bounces at lists.clamav.net> on behalf of Eduardo Lúcio Amorim Costa via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
Reply to: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
Date: Monday, 27 January 2020 at 14:19
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
Cc: Eduardo Lúcio Amorim Costa <eduardolucioac at gmail.com>, "G.W. Haywood" <clamav at jubileegroup.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV - What does the “clamd at scan” service do by default?

Thank you friends!

I confess that I am a little disappointed... If "clamd at scan" does not regularly scan my disk, what is its use then?

I confess that I was a little "lost" with ClamAV documentation... In fact, the only things I need are that ClamAV scan my server's disk for threats and also stop them before it happens. I thought this was simpler doing it with ClamAV...

Thank you very much anyway!

Sorry for my bad English! =D

Thanks! =D


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