-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Landry wrote:
> Erez Epstein wrote the following on 11/26/2006 1:24 AM -0800: >> Hello everybody, >> >> >> i have set up clamscan to scan all of the server using cron daily >> ( /usr/local/bin/clamscan -r -i --exclude-dir=/sys --no-summary / ) >> >> >> the scan is taking too long conisdered to other virus scanners (about >> 6 hours) >> why does it taking so much? >> and how can i shorten it while still scaning all files every night. > > If you're running clamd, why not use clamdscan instead of clamscan, it's > much faster? No, it's not faster. If you run clamscan or clamdscan once on a large number of files (as shown above) the execution speed is about the same. If you run them many times, say once per file, then what you said applies. - -- René Berber -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFagaEL3NNweKTRgwRAggAAKCpmyr9FDXCtCKoI5sUPxN3+caoIACgr86x 6ESpBynfOtakMs6topKRwi8= =PDXJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
