[clamav-users] using clamonacc daemon to track accessed files from linux

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, Bmr Xy via clamav-users wrote:

> sorry for my novice question

It's what we're here for, don't worry about it.

> what is best practice to do to track files that is accessed from my
> home directory?  without causing memory issues or cause computer
> hangs?  I am running a ubuntu 20.04.1 and I am using clamav 0.103.0
> I just want to see what files is accessed by using clamonacc daemon

If I were going there, I wouldn't start from here.  (Old joke. :)

There are Linux tools which let you implement file access monitoring
of the kind you describe.  The clamonacc daemon itself uses them, so
perhaps you should be looking to those tools and not to ClamAV.

See for example 'inotify', 'fanotify' and possibly 'dnotify'.

> besides is there a pdf documentation for clamav because I searched the
> website but i did not find it

I don't know of anything in PDF, the closest would be the 'man' pages,
which are plain text but you could turn them into PDF if you wanted to
with any of a number of utilities.

You could scrape the online manual pages, and make a PDF document from
that but it would soon be out of date.  Why do you want PDF especially?

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73,
Ged.