AW: Error with RAR-Files

Chris Conn cconn at ABACOM.COM
Fri Aug 6 14:19:51 IST 2004


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greyhair wrote:

> Chris,
>
>   Please forgive if I'm incorrect, but I think most us either the
> Perl interface to clamav (Mail::Clamav???) or the command line
> interface (clamscan) due to the fact that the daemon had a larger
> overhead when scanning files.  I think this overhead was expressed
> in both time per file and resources.
>
>   Therefore my guess would be that the answer to your clamdscan
> question would be no.
>
>   Is there a reason you would not like to use the Perl or command
> line wrapper?  clam works perfectly when installing using defaults
> and only a couple of file edits if you want to install clam in an
> alternate location.
>
> greyhair.


Hello,

It is my experience that clamdscan is less load-intensive on the servers
I manage.  I will look at installing the perl interfaces necessary to
have MailScanner use clamav without the wrapper.

Chris

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