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NAME

clamd - an anti-virus daemon

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS

clamd [options]

DESCRIPTION

The daemon listens for incoming connections on Unix or TCP socket and scans files or directories on demand. It’s a part of the Clam AntiVirus package. It reads its configuration information from a clamd.conf file. It provides on-access scanning feature (clamuko) under Linux.

COMMANDS

clamd recognizes the following commands:
PING Check the server’s state. It should reply with "PONG".
VERSION
  Print a version information.
RELOAD Reload the virus databases.
QUIT Perform a clean exit.
SCAN file/directory
  Scan a file or a directory (recursively) with archive support enabled (if not disabled in clamd.conf). A full path is required.
RAWSCAN file/directory
  Scan a file or directory (recursively) with archive support disabled. A full path is required.
CONTSCAN file/directory
  Scan a file or directory (recursively) with archive support enabled and continue scanning even when virus is found. A full path is required.
STREAM Scan stream - on this command clamd will return "PORT number" and you can connect to that port and send a data to scan.

OPTIONS

-h, --help Output help information and exit.
-V, --version
  Print the version number and exit.
-c FILE, --config-file=FILE
  Read configuration from FILE.

FILES

/usr/local/clamav/etc/clamd.conf

CREDITS

Please check the full documentation for credits.

AUTHOR

Tomasz Kojm <tkojm@clamav.net>

SEE ALSO

clamdscan(1), clamscan(1), freshclam(1), sigtool(1), clamd.conf(5), clamav-milter(8)


Tomasz Kojm Clam Daemon (8) November 11, 2003
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