Re: libclamav versus clamd

Andreas wrote:
> Any plans to have this runtime configurable at some point? libclamav vs clamd?

Not planned yet. vscan-clamav must be linked against libclamav to use 
it. In the clamd case this is not needed. So the current approach is: 
re-build the module if you switch between libclamav/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.

STREAM means don't pass the file name to clamd but send the contents of 
the file, right? Hum, this would also mean that clamd must not run on 
the same maschine as Samba, but I'm afraid the performance would be worse.

So, in short: clamd must run as root, I'm afraid (with read/write 
permissions for everyone of the socket). POSIX ACLs may help here, but I 
never really played with attr, setfattr and alike.

best regards
Rainer Link



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