Hi

Which is better in term of performance, if clamav, exim and alls files are
local?

Regards,
  Steffen
 

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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor Ustugov
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:17 AM
> To: David Saez Padros
> Subject: Re: [exim] Exiscan clamd "local" option - undocumented?
> 
> hello
> 
> David Saez Padros wrote:
> 
> >>I suppose that section is triggered by a "local" option 
> stated as in:
> >>
> >>  av_scanner = clamd:127.0.0.1 3310:local
> >>
> >>It would cause Exiscan to use clamd SCAN interface, as 
> opposed to the 
> >>STREAM one.
> >>
> >>Is a such understading correct?
> 
> exactly
> 
> > looks fine
> 
> >>Is it known to work? :-)
> > 
> > as i could remember that exact piece of code was contributed by 
> > someone else (i never used clamd using host/port). If you 
> try, please 
> > let us know if this works or not.
> 
> it works fine
> 
> > Anyway documentation
> > should be updated with this option.
> > 
> >>Yes, I'm aware one would normally use the SCAN interface with 
> >>Unix-domain sockets.
> > 
> > that would be the best and it's known to work.
> 
> at the beginning  exiscan used only TCP socket and SCAN 
> interface, so it couldn't use clamd runing on another host. 
> so exiscan must use STREAM interface with TCP socket.
> 
> as far as i know clamd can't listen both TCP and unix sockets.
> so, if you need to check files from remote hosts, you need to 
> use TCP socket.
> 
> and now, for example, clamd and exim are running on the same 
> host, but clamd need to check remote files, so clamd must use 
> TCP socket. in this case exiscan can use SCAN interface or 
> STREAM interface. now STREAM interface used by default. the 
> "local" option allow to use SCAN interface. it's simple and 
> well-tested.
> 
> 
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