Re: libclamav versus clamd

Andreas <andreas-KCZ47A4bww4P48s/[email protected]> Tue, 25 May 2004 18:07:11 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.openantivirus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 10:32:39PM +0200, Rainer Link wrote:
> >To be honest, this sums up the current situation very well. The problem 
> >is that the unix domain socket is owned by a specific user (i.e. 
> >"clamav"), but the smbd process are running with various user ids.
> 
> Uups, sorry, I missed the point here. It's not about permissions of the 
> socket itself but clamd can not access files. Hum.

Yes, I was going to point that out when I saw this next post :)

Any plans to have this runtime configurable at some point? libclamav vs clamd?

I also thought a little about using the STREAM clamd command, but it is
marked as obsolete and I'm not sure if performance wouldn't be worse.



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