which Ubuntu Version is running and which ClamAV Version?

Von / From:     Tom Jordan Via Clamav-Users 
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An / To:        Newcomer01 <mailto:[email protected]>
CC / CC:        Tom Jordan <mailto:[email protected]>
Gesendet / Sent:        Dienstag, November 12, 2025 um 21:46 (at 09:46 PM) +0100
Betreff / Subject:      [clamav-users] clamonacc detects file and says scanning 
of file has started but then nothing happens

Hi,

So I couldn't get the clamonacc scanner running on the host VM to detect files 
in the Docker container by watching the overlay file system where the Docker 
filesystems are mounted on the host. It seemsa like that is not possible with 
clam tools, so I am trying a different configuration now (a helpful suggestion 
from Andrew Aitchison). I have clamonacc running in the Docker container 
(clamonacc --move=/infected --foreground --log=/tmp/clamonacc.log --verbose), 
and clamd server running in the host VM (clamd --foreground --debug), with 
communication between the two via a TCP port/IP address configured in 
clamd.conf, which container and host each have a copy of same.

Now the clamonacc running in the container can ping the clamd:

tpj@tpj-VirtualBox: clamonacc --ping 10

PONG

which suggests the TCP address/port configuration is correct between the two. 
Also, when I shell into the clamonacc container and access an eincar.txt test 
malware file that I installed when building the container, the clamonacc 
detects me touching the file and indicates scanning has begun, as seen from its 
log output:

ClamFanotif: attempting to feed consumer queue

ClamWorker: performing scanning on file 
'/home/ubuntu/clam_test/clam_test_sub_dir/eincar.txt'

But then nothing else happens, there is no notification about einvar.txt being 
a malware file and it is not moved to the quarantine folder. There is nothing 
further in the clamonacc log and nothing appears in the clamd log indicating 
that scanning has taken place at that end. The logging is not particularly 
verbose and I can't see how to get any further information out about what has 
happened.

If I just create an innocuous file such as

echo "hello" > test.txt

in the same directory /home/ubuntu/clam_test/clam_test_sub_dir/, I see the 
following log messages from clamonacc:

ClamFanotif: attempting to feed consumer queue

ClamWorker: performing scanning on file 
'/home/ubuntu/clam_test/clam_test_sub_dir/test.txt'

but test.txt is an benign file, this just shows that clamonacc sees all files 
on the watched path.

Why is this not working? It feels like I'm nearly there but it doesn't work. Is 
there anything else I can do to get more information out?

I'm using the following in clamd.conf:

OnAccessIncludePath /home/ubuntu

OnAccessExcludeUname clamav

#OnAccessPrevention yes

and here is the complete log output from clamonacc:

root@7b58bc699d7b:/# clamonacc --move=/infected --foreground 
--log=/tmp/clamonacc.log --verbose

--------------------------------------

ClamClient: client setup to scan via streaming

Clamonacc: daemon is remote

ClamFanotif: kernel-level blocking feature disabled ...

ClamFanotif: max file size limited to 5242880 bytes

ClamScanQueue: initializing event queue consumer ... (5) threads in thread pool

Clamonacc: beginning event loops

ClamFanotif: starting fanotify event loop with process id (67) ...

ClamInotif: starting inotify event loop ...

ClamInotif: dynamically determining directory hierarchy...

ClamInotif: watching '/home/ubuntu' (and all sub-directories)

Excluding temp directory: /tmp

ClamScanQueue: waiting to consume events ...

ClamInotif: NVM, didn't actually need to exclude '/tmp'

ClamFanotif: attempting to feed consumer queue

ClamFanotif: attempting to feed consumer queue

ClamMisc: $/proc/76 vanished before UIDs could be excluded; scanning anyway

ClamFanotif: attempting to feed consumer queue

ClamWorker: performing scanning on file 
'/home/ubuntu/clam_test/clam_test_sub_dir/eincar.txt.copy'

ClamWorker: performing scanning on file 
'/home/ubuntu/clam_test/clam_test_sub_dir/eincar.txt'

ClamWorker: performing scanning on file 
'/home/ubuntu/clam_test/clam_test_sub_dir/eincar.txt'

and from clamd:

tpj@ubuntu_box:/# clamd --foreground --debug

Limits: Global time limit set to 120000 milliseconds.

Limits: Global size limit set to 419430400 bytes.

Limits: File size limit set to 104857600 bytes.

Limits: Recursion level limit set to 17.

Limits: Files limit set to 10000.

Limits: Core-dump limit is 18446744073709551615.

Limits: MaxEmbeddedPE limit set to 41943040 bytes.

Limits: MaxHTMLNormalize limit set to 41943040 bytes.

Limits: MaxHTMLNoTags limit set to 8388608 bytes.

Limits: MaxScriptNormalize limit set to 20971520 bytes.

Limits: MaxZipTypeRcg limit set to 1048576 bytes.

Limits: MaxPartitions limit set to 50.

Limits: MaxIconsPE limit set to 100.

Limits: MaxRecHWP3 limit set to 16.

Limits: PCREMatchLimit limit set to 100000.

Limits: PCRERecMatchLimit limit set to 2000.

Limits: PCREMaxFileSize limit set to 104857600.

Archive support enabled.

Image (graphics) scanning support enabled.

Detection using image fuzzy hash enabled.

AlertExceedsMax heuristic detection disabled.

Heuristic alerts enabled.

Portable Executable support enabled.

ELF support enabled.

Mail files support enabled.

OLE2 support enabled.

PDF support enabled.

SWF support enabled.

HTML support enabled.

XMLDOCS support enabled.

HWP3 support enabled.

OneNote support enabled.

Self checking every 600 seconds.

Listening daemon: PID: 14

MaxQueue set to: 100

SelfCheck: Database status OK.

SelfCheck: Database status OK.

SelfCheck: Database status OK.

Any help as always much appreciated.

Thomas


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