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Hi there,

On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, Rick Graham via clamav-users wrote:

> I inadvertently miss-typed the commandline and I was surprised clamscan
> executed for 48 seconds. How was clamscan spending its time?
>
> # clamscan ==help
> ...

You really need to understand how ClamAV works in order to use it
sensibly and effectively. There's documentation at

http://www.clamav.net/documents

In your example clamscan was not "searching". It spent the 48 seconds
loading signatures; see

http://www.clamav.net/documents/scanning

If you'd done that on one of my systems it would have been more like
four minutes. :/

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Perhaps a useful feature would be an extra verbose option ("-vv") that
would print more clamscan status, like loading signatures.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 7:32 PM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <
clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, Rick Graham via clamav-users wrote:
>
> > I inadvertently miss-typed the commandline and I was surprised clamscan
> > executed for 48 seconds. How was clamscan spending its time?
> >
> > # clamscan ==help
> > ...
>
> You really need to understand how ClamAV works in order to use it
> sensibly and effectively. There's documentation at
>
> http://www.clamav.net/documents
>
> In your example clamscan was not "searching". It spent the 48 seconds
> loading signatures; see
>
> http://www.clamav.net/documents/scanning
>
> If you'd done that on one of my systems it would have been more like
> four minutes. :/
>
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>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
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* Rick Graham via clamav-users:

> Perhaps a useful feature would be an extra verbose option ("-vv") that
> would print more clamscan status, like loading signatures.

That would not save you from using 'clamscan' when you should be using
'clamdscan'. ;-)

-Ralph

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Each to his/her own use case. ;-)

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 11:14 PM Ralph Seichter via clamav-users <
clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> * Rick Graham via clamav-users:
>
> > Perhaps a useful feature would be an extra verbose option ("-vv") that
> > would print more clamscan status, like loading signatures.
>
> That would not save you from using 'clamscan' when you should be using
> 'clamdscan'. ;-)
>
> -Ralph
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Correct, but we have no idea what yours is, so can't really suggest anything.

-Al-

On Nov 22, 2019, at 16:43, Rick Graham via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>
> Each to his/her own use case. ;-)
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 11:14 PM Ralph Seichter via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net <mailto:clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>> wrote:
> * Rick Graham via clamav-users:
>
> > Perhaps a useful feature would be an extra verbose option ("-vv") that
> > would print more clamscan status, like loading signatures.
>
> That would not save you from using 'clamscan' when you should be using
> 'clamdscan'. ;-)
>
> -Ralph

unluckly clamdscan does not honor --config-file= and I cannot exclude Unofficial signatures which are good
only for spam .


> * Rick Graham via clamav-users:
>
>> Perhaps a useful feature would be an extra verbose option ("-vv") that
>> would print more clamscan status, like loading signatures.
> That would not save you from using 'clamscan' when you should be using
> 'clamdscan'. ;-)
>
> -Ralph
>
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>> can't really suggest anything.

That's why I made the suggestion.


>>
>> > Perhaps a useful feature would be an extra verbose option ("-vv") that
>> > would print more clamscan status, like loading signatures.
>>
>>
>

* Grscripts via clamav-users:

> unluckly clamdscan does not honor --config-file=

Since clamdscan leaves scanning to the server (which is properly
configured), I have never tried to use "clamdscan --config-file=...",
but according to the man-page, the option should be supported.

-Ralph

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Hi there,

On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Ralph Seichter via clamav-users wrote:

> * Grscripts via clamav-users:
>
>> unluckly clamdscan does not honor --config-file=
>
> Since clamdscan leaves scanning to the server (which is properly
> configured), I have never tried to use "clamdscan --config-file=...",
> but according to the man-page, the option should be supported.

I use it daily, version 0.102.x

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