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tmg at umn

Apr 18, 2012, 10:13 AM

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clamd network mode

Hi,

We're running clamav on our mta servers right now, each in local mode.
We're experiencing some high loads causing mail delays on these servers,
and are trying to offload some of their resources. It seems from some of
the language in the clamd conf file that there's a way to use clamd in a
network fashion. Is this just a matter of changing the socket being used
to point to the external box? Or are there other variables that need to be
set to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Tom

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University of Minnesota - Internet Services
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lists at sterenborg

Apr 18, 2012, 10:49 AM

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Re: clamd network mode [In reply to]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:13 -0500, Tom Goerger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're running clamav on our mta servers right now, each in local mode.
> We're experiencing some high loads causing mail delays on these servers,

I can imagine if you're using clamscan.

> and are trying to offload some of their resources. It seems from some of
> the language in the clamd conf file that there's a way to use clamd in a
> network fashion. Is this just a matter of changing the socket being used
> to point to the external box? Or are there other variables that need to be
> set to accomplish this?

You have to configure clamd using clamd.conf and then start clamd. Clamd
can use a socket or an IP:port connection, that's up to you. Personally,
I find clamd.conf descriptive enough to be able to find out how to
configure it.
After starting clamd, you can use clamdscan instead of clamscan for
scanning (the file(s) in) your email.

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Rob

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ged at jubileegroup

Apr 19, 2012, 4:23 AM

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Re: clamd network mode [In reply to]

Hi there,

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Tom Goerger wrote:

> We're running clamav on our mta servers right now, each in local
> mode. We're experiencing some high loads causing mail delays on
> these servers, and are trying to offload some of their resources.

Mail scanning can use up a lot of resources. Without more information
about your systems, architectures, mail volume, scanning configuration
etc. it's difficult to comment.

> It seems from some of the language in the clamd conf file that
> there's a way to use clamd in a network fashion.

Check out 'TCPSocket' etc. in 'clamd.conf'.

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73,
Ged.
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