Alberto da Silva wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:17:42 -0000, Plant, Dean > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nutty I may be :-) but scanning selectively is fine for a few >> machines but what if you have fifty machines with varying >> configurations. This approach would mean an extra administrative >> overhead to guarantee all machines do a correct full scan without >> scanning files multiple times because they are NFS mounted. >> Selectively scanning would also allow area's on file systems to be >> missed if someone creates a new directory that is not included on >> the scan list. >> >> Having the ability to exclude directories or limit to local file >> systems, you could run a simple common script with clamscan -r / >> --exclude-dir's, that would guarantee to scan all your files across >> all your machines while missing out problem directories. >> >> Dean > > This is a user problem. > > Write a script that looks at the config of the server being scanned > eg: > df -F ufs to get a list of ufs file sytems > use find on the df-list to generate an exclude list (pipes, doors, > etc) execute clamscan df-list -exclude=exclude-list > > Alberto
Ok, fair point. I didn't think of doing it that way (simple really). Ill give that a go, taking in your and Dennis's suggestions. Thanks Dean _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
