Chuck Swiger wrote: > On May 8, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Rekrutacja wrote: >> is it possible that developers will add option to clamscan, to load >> file >> list to be scanned, from other file? > > Can't you do this via something like: > > % ls -1 > /tmp/filelist_to_scan > % xargs clamdscan < /tmp/filelist_to_scan > > ...?
i didn't know i can give more than 1 argument to clamscan... by the way - any idea how to scan files encoded in base64 ? there are PHP.shells on my server, that are easly found by clamscan when in normal text, but when encoded in base64 , clam doesn't detect anything. i thought base64 was added already? also, any way to add daemon but not for mails, but one that will scan files added to some directory in the background automatically? > >> the problem is i have many users uploading files, and i log it. i want >> clamscan to run like every minute or less, and scan these files from >> the >> list, but it takes a lot of time for clamscan to load into memory >> (viruses databases) > > Right, so use clamdscan rather than normal clamscan. > >> wouldn't that be easier to just be able to add like --load-from-file >> option, where i can tell clamscan which files should be scanned? > > I don't see anything wrong with the notion of having explicit support > for loading filenames from a file, but you can use xargs to place such > files onto the command-line arguments and get the same results.... > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
