[clamav-users] clamd cache (was Re: clamscan --disable-cache)

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Wed, 30 Sep 2020, Dave Sill via clamav-users wrote:

> Unfortunately, it looks like the cache is too small to help.
>
> I ran clamdscan twice on my /home (69k files) and got:
>
> # clamdscan --fdpass /home
> /home/de5/eicar.tar.gz: Eicar-Signature FOUND
> WARNING: /home/de5/.cisco/hostscan/.libcsd.ipc: Not supported file type
> WARNING: Directory recursion limit reached
> WARNING: Directory recursion limit reached

All this means is that (by default, but it's configurable) the scanner
won't recurse deeper than fifteen directories when it does a recursive
directory scan and you have a driectory tree under /home that's deeper
than that.  See 'MaxDirectoryRecursion' in the clamd.conf man page.

There are quite a few limits of this kind to try to prevent you from
DOSing yourself, it's worth perusing the man pages.

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73,
Ged.