swebb at sourcefire
Jun 27, 2013, 12:40 PM
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Re: clamscan produces output to --log=FILE when --quiet, --no-summary and --infected are specified
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:35 PM, David Raynor <draynor [at] sourcefire>wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Trevor Cooper <tcooper [at] ucsd> wrote:
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> > I'm writing an automated daily scan script and I can't seem to get NO
> > output
> > from clamscan if/when nothing of interest is found. For example,
> executing
> > with...
> >
> > "$CLAMSCAN_BIN" --quiet --no-summary --infected --stdout
> > --file-list="$FILE_LIST" --log="$LOG_FILE"
> >
> > Produces the following in the $LOG_FILE...
> >
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > Once for 'each' invocation of clamscan.
> >
> > Is there way to disable this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Trevor
> >
> >
> > --
> > Trevor Cooper, M.Sc.
> > Data Systems Programmer / System Administrator
> > University of California, San Diego
> > Multimodal Imaging Laboratory
> > 8950 Villa La Jolla Dr., Suite C101
> > La Jolla, CA 92037
> > Phone: (858) 822-4330
> > Fax: (858) 534-1078
> >
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> Not without changing the code. clamscan is printing that line when it
> initializes the logger as an immediate confirmation that the logger is
> working. clamdscan does the same.
>
> If you want to eliminate that line, you can comment out line 136 through
> 140 in clamscan.c and recompile. Those lines look like this:
>
>
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> if(logg("#\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n"))
> {
> mprintf("!Problem with internal logger.\n");
> optfree(opts);
> return 2;
> }
>
> Of course, this change will make logger issues harder to pin down, so
> beware.
Additionally, one could output to a temporary logfile then filter the
logfile through grep to simply prevent that line from being outputted. Or
simply output to stdout and run grep on that, outputting to the normal
logfile location.
Thanks,
Shawn
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