clamd - an anti-virus daemon

clamd [options]

The daemon listens for incoming connections on Unix or TCP socket and scans files or directories on demand. It's a part of the Clam AntiVirus package. It reads its configuration information from a clamd.conf file. It provides on-access scanning feature (clamuko) under Linux.

clamd recognizes the following commands:

PING

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

VERSION

Print a version information.

RELOAD

Reload the virus databases.

QUIT

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.

RAWSCAN file/directory

Scan a file or directory (recursively) with archive support disabled. A full path is required.

CONTSCAN file/directory

Scan a file or directory (recursively) with archive support enabled and continue scanning even when virus is found. A full path is required.

STREAM

Scan stream - on this command clamd will return "PORT number" and you can connect to that port and send a data to scan.

-h, --help

Output help information and exit.

-V, --version

Print the version number and exit.

-c FILE, --config-file=FILE

Read configuration from FILE.

/etc/clamav/clamd.conf

Please check the full documentation for credits.

Tomasz Kojm <tkojm@clamav.net>

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