[users] Failing in updating to clamav and clamav-db

Dave Miller justdave at mozilla.com
Sat Dec 22 19:53:31 CET 2007


Michael Mansour wrote on 12/22/07 4:20 AM:
> Yes you're right, that is another option but I prefer not to do this as clamd
> then scans all inbound and outbound files to the server, which is not what I
> want. I only want it to scan mail which MailScanner handles.

clamd doesn't insert itself in front of your filesystems.  It just sits
there and listens on a socket and/or port and waits for you to send
files to it.  You still have to tell it which files to scan (which is
what clamdscan does).

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