[clamav-users] clamav incremental scan?

[Michael Wang]

Grant,

I do not disagree with you on the separate functionality of the scheduling
engine and scanning engine. The question is: does such an engine exist? I
feel it is too much for each individual user to implement such a scheduling
engine. I am new to ClamAV, does the question / solution ever pop up?
Thanks.

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 4:29 PM Grant Taylor via clamav-users <
clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> On 5/4/21 12:19 PM, Michael Wang wrote:
> > looks like this should be a functionality of the clamav itself.
>
> What you are describing sounds like something independent of the ClamAV
> /scanning/ engine.  More specifically, it sounds like the responsibility
> of a /scheduling/ engine.
>
> My understanding is that the scheduling is outside of the scope of what
> ClamAV normally does.
>
> I see no reason why you couldn't have something -- run as a user with
> sufficient privileges to read the file(s) in question -- which maintains
> metadata about files; name, ctime, mtime, permissions, owner, group,
> hash, last scan time, etc, and determines if a file has changed since
> the last time it was scanned.  /That/ /scheduling/ engine could then
> easily ask the ClamAV /scanning/ engine -- likely running as a different
> non-root user -- to scan the files handed to it by -- what is
> effectively -- the /scheduling/ engine.
>
> There are a lot of different ways to go about something like this.  My
> opinion is that most of them are outside of the scope of the ClamAV's
> /scanning/ engine.
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
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