[clamav-users] Possible to use clamdscan to scan a file on the clamd host?

[Choate, Nathan]

> 8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
> laptop3:~$ >>> telnet 192.168.44.7 3313
> Trying 192.168.44.7...
> Connected to 192.168.44.7.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> SCAN /home/ged/tempfile
> /home/ged/tempfile: OK
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
>

This is exactly what I needed. Thanks for the help!

Regards,
Nathan Choate


> -----Original Message-----
> From: clamav-users <clamav-users-bounces at lists.clamav.net> On Behalf Of
> G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 2:32 PM
> To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
> Cc: G.W. Haywood <clamav at jubileegroup.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Possible to use clamdscan to scan a file on the
> clamd host?
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Choate, Nathan via clamav-users wrote:
> 
> > ... we would like to use clamdscan to tell clamd to scan the mounted
> > volume contents from its container, not through a stream from the
> > client. Is that possible?
> 
> Yes, using the clamd API.  Here's a cut-n-paste of me doing exactly that on
> our clamd server by connecting to it from my laptop:
> 
> 8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
> laptop3:~$ >>> telnet 192.168.44.7 3313
> Trying 192.168.44.7...
> Connected to 192.168.44.7.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> SCAN /home/ged/tempfile
> /home/ged/tempfile: OK
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> HTH
> 
> --
> 
> 73,
> Ged.
> 
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