Clam Daemon(8)

NAME

clamd - an anti-virus daemon

SYNOPSIS

clamd [options]

DESCRIPTION

The daemon listens for incoming connections on Unix and/or TCP socket and scans files or directories on demand. It reads the configuration from /etc/clamd.conf

COMMANDS

It's recommended to prefix clamd commands with the letter n (eg. nSCAN) to indicate that the command will be delimited by a newline character and that clamd should continue reading command data until a newline is read. The newline delimiter assures that the complete command and its entire argument will be processed as a single command. clamd recognizes the following commands:

PING
    Check the server's state. It should reply with "PONG".

VERSION
    Print program and database versions.

RELOAD
    Reload the virus databases.

SHUTDOWN
    Perform a clean exit.

SCAN file/directory
    Scan a file or a directory (recursively) with archive support enabled (if not disabled in clamd.conf). A full path is required.

CONTSCAN file/directory
    Scan file or directory (recursively) with archive support enabled and don't stop the scanning when a virus is found.

MULTISCAN file/directory
    Scan file in a standard way or scan directory (recursively) using multiple threads (to make the scanning faster on SMP machines).

STREAM
    Scan stream - on this command clamd will return "PORT number" you should connect to and send data to scan.

SESSION, END
    Start/end a clamd session which will allow you to run multiple commands per TCP session.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Output help information and exit.

-V, --version
    Print the version number and exit.

-c FILE, --config-file=FILE
    Read configuration from FILE.

FILES

/etc/clamd.conf

CREDITS
Please check the full documentation for credits.

AUTHOR

Tomasz Kojm <tkojm@clamav.net>

SEE ALSO

clamd.conf(5), clamdscan(1), clamscan(1), freshclam(1), sigtool(1), clamav-milter(8)