On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:46:48 -0500 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Kyle Victor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Second is there a best practice that says running the clamscan
>  command as I am is not as good as running clamd and checking mail
>  with clamdscan?

It depends on the loading of your server, clamscan spawns a new process
for each scan whereas clamdscan makes use of a daemon that can have more
than one instance of itself running waiting for additional clamdscan
processes to attach. If you have a heavy email load, clamd is the thing
to run.

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Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

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