Indeed, I'm having this problem too. Probably the include wins over the exclude, even with this in the logs:
clamd[4940]: ScanOnAccess: Protecting directory '/var/log' (and all sub-directories)
clamd[4940]: ScanOnAccess: Protecting directory '/var' (and all sub-directories)
clamd[4940]: ScanOnAccess: Excluding directory '/var/log' (and all sub-directories)
The way I do it currently is via a small script (and I don't do /var/log) to precisely indicate via OnAccessIncludePath what I want ...
F.
Op Donderdag, 26-09-2019 om 11:53 schreef CROFT Ian:
It's a fair point Ged well made.
And making sure they are all strings looks better now in most cases.
So I now have these :-
OnAccessIncludePath /var/log ( Only added to include to get around the bug previously mentioned )
OnAccessIncludePath /var
OnAccessExcludePath /var/log
However eicar test as /var/log/test.txt is still being picked up.
Its working fine on other real sub directories ( not separate munts ), feels like this is falling foul of the fact /var/log is a sub mount point perhaps.
Cheers
Ian
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From: clamav-users <clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net> On Behalf Of G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Sent: 26 September 2019 10:22
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Cc: G.W. Haywood <clamav@jubileegroup.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [clamav-users] OnAccessExcludePath being ignored.
Hi there,
On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, CROFT Ian wrote:
> But when I put an EICAR test txt file in /var/log/test.txt it is getting picked up by the OnAccess scanner.
>
> I have tried ^/var/log/ and ^/var/log/* - same issue the test.txt is still picked up by the OnAccess scanner when it should in my mind be being ignored.
>
> Any ideas ?
You really do need to get used to reading the 'man' pages.
In this case the man page for clamd.conf states
OnAccessExcludePath STRING
which means that the argument is a STRING, not a REGEX.
You must not put things like '^' and '*' in a STRING argument because a STRING is taken literally. You are excluding names which do not exist on your system.
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73,
Ged.
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