[clamav-users] OnAccessExtraScanning not working?

[Nick]

Thanks for the quick response Ged. Ok good to know the answer. I'll try and hack something with inotifywait for now.

Nick




‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 12:11, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Nick via clamav-users wrote:
>
> > New to clamav so please forgive me if I've missed something obvious.
>
> There's lots to find if you dig deep enough for long enough. :)
>
> > ... I enabled OnAccessExtraScanning as man clamd.conf says this
> > "Toggles extra scanning and notifications when a file or directory
> > is created or moved." Unfortunately when the eicar file is created
> > (by using wget to download it) I don't see anything happen. I did
> > read this feature was taken out due to a memory leak. Is it still
> > removed or am I missing something else?
>
> https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12048
>
> After three years of no movement on this, I think there's a case for
> updating the 'man' page to reflect the status quo.
>
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> 73,
> Ged.
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