I don't have much to add to what Ged wrote regarding best practices for monitoring home directory file accesses.
The ClamAV documentation can be found online at https://www.clamav.net/documents/clam-antivirus-user-manual If you need offline documentation, there is a local-html version inside the source tar file https://www.clamav.net/downloads/production/clamav-0.103.0.tar.gz in the docs\html directory. Regards, Micah > -----Original Message----- > From: clamav-users <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > G.W. Haywood via clamav-users > Sent: Monday, February 1, 2021 6:13 AM > To: Bmr Xy via clamav-users <[email protected]> > Cc: G.W. Haywood <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [clamav-users] using clamonacc daemon to track accessed files > from linux > > Hi there, > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, Bmr Xy via clamav-users wrote: > > > sorry for my novice question > > It's what we're here for, don't worry about it. > > > what is best practice to do to track files that is accessed from my > > home directory? without causing memory issues or cause computer > > hangs? I am running a ubuntu 20.04.1 and I am using clamav 0.103.0 I > > just want to see what files is accessed by using clamonacc daemon > > If I were going there, I wouldn't start from here. (Old joke. :) > > There are Linux tools which let you implement file access monitoring of the > kind you describe. The clamonacc daemon itself uses them, so perhaps you > should be looking to those tools and not to ClamAV. > > See for example 'inotify', 'fanotify' and possibly 'dnotify'. > > > besides is there a pdf documentation for clamav because I searched the > > website but i did not find it > > I don't know of anything in PDF, the closest would be the 'man' pages, which > are plain text but you could turn them into PDF if you wanted to with any of a > number of utilities. > > You could scrape the online manual pages, and make a PDF document from > that but it would soon be out of date. Why do you want PDF especially? > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
