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

[Micah Snyder (micasnyd)]

I don't have much to add to what Ged wrote regarding best practices for monitoring home directory file accesses.

The ClamAV documentation can be found online at https://www.clamav.net/documents/clam-antivirus-user-manual
If you need offline documentation, there is a local-html version inside the source tar file https://www.clamav.net/downloads/production/clamav-0.103.0.tar.gz in the docs\html directory.

Regards,
Micah


> -----Original Message-----
> From: clamav-users <clamav-users-bounces at lists.clamav.net> On Behalf Of
> G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
> Sent: Monday, February 1, 2021 6:13 AM
> To: Bmr Xy via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
> Cc: G.W. Haywood <clamav at jubileegroup.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] using clamonacc daemon to track accessed files
> from linux
> 
> 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 that but it would soon be out of date.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?
> 
> --
> 
> 73,
> Ged.
> 
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