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Title: Difference between ClamAV and Amavis-ng
Post by: Erika on September 17, 2003, 06:14:08 PM

Hi,

Can someone explain me what is the difference beetween ClamAV and Amavis-ng.
Are they 2 different things, or are they dependent ?

I searched in the forum, but i didn't find anything (except they are very often associated)...

I'm looking for a free antivirus, since I already run an antispam daemon (spamassassin).

Any help is welcome :-)

Erika

Title: Re: Difference between ClamAV and Amavis-ng
Post by: Randall Perry on September 17, 2003, 07:46:36 PM

ClamAV is an antivirus scanner.
It can scan your hard drive for viruses.

Amavis inserts itself ahead of the MTA so that it intercepts email and then pipes it through the ClamAV for scanning.

The best howto is at pagefault.org.

Title: Re: Difference between ClamAV and Amavis-ng
Post by: Erika on September 17, 2003, 07:59:23 PM

Thanks for your comments.

I didn't see the difference between the two, I know understand why they are two different things :-)))

Title: Re: Difference between ClamAV and Amavis-ng
Post by: Dan Williams on September 17, 2003, 10:33:20 PM

I can not figure out how to exclude a directory in the clam scan scheduled cron job.
Each night a full scan happens which is great, but I wish it ti exclude /mnt.
Dan

Title: Re: Difference between ClamAV and Amavis-ng
Post by: Brian on September 18, 2003, 08:28:49 PM

I installed ClamAV + Amavis-ng according to the how to at pagefault.org.  It is working great and catching viruses in emails.  
I am wondering if ClamAV is also scanning my hard drive (ibays, home drives) or if I need to enable this separately.  If it is scanning my drive where can I find the logs?  
I am using v5.6.
Hope this is not a stupid question.  Thanks in advance for any help.

Title: Re: Difference between ClamAV and Amavis-ng
Post by: Randall Perry on September 22, 2003, 09:46:50 PM

To exclude a directory, edit your /etc/clamav.conf
add the following line

ClamukoExcludePath /mnt

You should be OK then.

Title: logging
Post by: Randall Perry on September 22, 2003, 09:55:12 PM

During the configuration, you get asked for an administrative email address.  This is where it sends the results to.

If you enable verbose logging, then you can also
cat /var/log/clamav/clamd.log

Title: Re: Difference between ClamAV and Amavis-ng
Post by: Dan Williams on September 22, 2003, 09:56:47 PM

Hi Randy,
Do you not need Clamuko installed for this though?
I did a search and do not have that on my e-smith?
I installed Clam as per Damiens pages at pagefault.org.
dan