[clamav-users] clamav scan of changed files

[Nibin V M]

The inotify-tools may be useful in this case. An example like in
https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/automatically-detecting-files-placed-in-my-downloads-directory-in-gentoo-linux-and-scanning-them-for-viruses/
should work.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 1:06 PM <giovanni+clamav at paclan.it> wrote:

>
> On 10/21/20 4:08 AM, Olivier via clamav-users wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >> I would like to know what would be the best way to do a virus scan of
> changed or new files only. I
> >> want to run a daily scan of changed and new files during weekdays and
> run a full scan on
> >> weekends.
> >>
> >> I did some search and was able to find a few ways of doing it but I
> would also like your suggestions.
> >
> > There is that daemon that can report any changed files in an operating
> > system, I known I played witg it many years ago as I wanted somethiung
> > able to scan anything on the fly. It was on FreeBSD, but such daemon
> > should exist for Linux too and it could send the files/filenames to the
> > scanning daemon.
> >
> you could use incrond(8) which uses the inotify(2) interface to scan for
> changed files, this can be used to produce a list of files that will be
> scanned later.
>
>  Giovanni
>
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