Clam daemon
clamd is a multi-threaded daemon that uses libclamav
to scan files against viruses. It may work in one of the two network modes,
listening on a:
- Unix (local) socket
- TCP socket
The daemon is fully configurable via the clamd.conf file
5. clamd recognizes the following commands:
- PING
Check daemon state (should reply with "PONG").
- VERSION
Print program and database versions.
- RELOAD
Reload databases.
- SHUTDOWN
Perform a clean exit.
- SCAN file/directory
Scan file or directory (recursively) with archive support
enabled (a full path is required).
- RAWSCAN file/directory
Scan file or directory (recursively) with archive support
disabled (a full path is required).
- CONTSCAN file/directory
Scan file or directory (recursively) with archive support
enabled and do not stop scanning if virus is found.
- STREAM
Scan stream:
clamd will return a new port number you should
connect to and send data to scan.
- SESSION, END
Start/end a
clamd session - you can do multiple commands
per TCP session (WARNING: due to the clamd implementation the
RELOAD command will break the session).
and reacts to the special signals:
- SIGTERM - perform a clean exit
- SIGHUP - reopen a log file
- SIGUSR2 - reload the database