Manual Reference Pages  - freshclam.conf (5)

NAME

freshclam.conf - Configuration file for Clam AntiVirus Database Updater

CONTENTS

DESCRIPTION

The file freshclam.conf configures the Clam AntiVirus Database Updater, freshclam(1).

FILE FORMAT

The file consists of comments and options with arguments. Each line that starts with a hash (#) symbol is a comment. Options and arguments are case sensitive and of the form Option Argument. The (possibly optional) arguments are of the following types:
STRING String without blank characters.
SIZE Size in bytes. You can use ’M’ or ’m’ modifiers for megabytes and ’K’ or ’k’ for kilobytes.
NUMBER Unsigned integer.

DIRECTIVES

When an option is not used (hashed or doesn’t exist in the configuration file) freshclam takes a default action.
Example
  If this option is set freshclam will not run.
DatabaseOwner STRING
  When started by root, drop privileges to a specified user.
Default:
AllowSupplementaryGroups
  Initialize supplementary group access (freshclam must be started by root).
Default: disabled
DatabaseDirectory STRING
  Path to a directory containing database files.
Default: /usr/local/clamav/share/clamav
Checks NUM
  Number of database checks per day.
Default: 12
UpdateLogFile STRING
  Enable logging to a specified file. Highly recommended.
Default: disabled.
LogSyslog
  Enable logging to Syslog. May be used in combination with UpdateLogFile.
Default: disabled.
LogFacility
  Specify the type of syslog messages - please refer to ’man syslog’ for facility names.
Default: LOG_LOCAL6
PidFile
  This option allows you to save the process identifier of the daemon.
Default: disabled
LogVerbose
  Enable verbose logging.
Default: disabled
DNSDatabaseInfo STRING
  This directive enables database and software version verification through DNS TXT records.
Default: enabled, pointing to current.cvd.clamav.net
DatabaseMirror STRING
  Server name where database updates are downloaded from. In order to download the database from the closest mirror you should configure freshclam to use db.xy.clamav.net where xy represents your country code. If this option is given multiple times, freshclam(1) tries them in the order given. It’s strongly recommended that you use db.xy.clamav.net as the first mirror and database.clamav.net as the second.
Default: database.clamav.net
MaxAttempts NUM
  Freshclam(1) tries every mirror this number of times before switching to the next mirror.
Default: 3 (per mirror)
HTTPProxyServer STR, HTTPProxyPort NUM
  Use given proxy server and TCP port for database downloads.
HTTPProxyUsername STR,HTTPProxyPassword STR
  Proxy usage is authenticated through given username and password.
Default: no proxy authentication
LocalIPAddress IP
  Use IP as client address for downloading databases. Useful for multi homed systems.
Default: Use OS'es default outgoing IP address.
NotifyClamd [STRING\]
  Notify a running clamd(8) to reload its database after a download has occurred. Optionally a clamd.conf(5) file location may be given to tell freshclam(1) how to communicate with clamd(8).
Default: The default is to not notify clamd. See clamd.conf(5)'s option SelfCheck for how clamd(8) handles database updates in this case.
OnUpdateExecute STRING
  Execute this command after the database has been successfully updated.
Default: disabled
OnErrorExecute STRING
  Execute this command after a database update has failed.
Default: disabled

NOTE

While not reasonable, any configuration option from clamd.conf(5) may be given.

FILES

/usr/local/clamav/etc/freshclam.conf

AUTHOR

Thomas Lamy <thomas.lamy@netwake.de>

SEE ALSO

freshclam(1), clamd.conf(5), clamd(8), clamscan(1)


Thomas Lamy freshclam.conf (5) September 27, 2004
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