Suggestion: configuration option for ClamAV paths

[Philip Hachey]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:04:07 +0100, Julian Field
<MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

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>On 5 Oct 2005, at 20:03, Philip Hachey wrote:
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>> I'd like to suggest the addition of two configuration options in
>> MailScanner.conf:
>>
>> ClamAV Work Dir
>> ===============
>> It's nice to have ClamAV work in a tmpfs filesystem.  For example,
>> I have
>> changed
>> TempDir="/tmp/clamav.$$"
>> to
>> TempDir="/dev/shm/clamav.$$"
>> in /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper
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>That only works if you have /dev/shm mounted as tmpfs, or if you have
>it at all. Most Unix distributions don't, only Linux has it. And I'm
>certainly not getting into OS-dependent -wrapper scripts.

I wasn't suggesting something OS-dependent, just the ability to configure
where the temporary "clamav.$$" gets written to.

As has been suggested, mounting /tmp as tmpfs is also a good idea.

Thanks,
Philip

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