man clamd.conf (Formats) - Configuration file for Clam AntiVirus Daemon
NAME
clamd.conf - Configuration file for Clam AntiVirus Daemon
DESCRIPTION
FILE FORMAT
The file consists of comments and options with arguments. Each line that starts with a hash (#) symbol is a comment. Options and arguments are case sensitive and of the form Option Argument. The (possibly optional) arguments are are of the following types:
- STRING
- String without blank characters.
- SIZE
- Size in bytes. You can use 'M' or 'm' modifiers for megabytes and 'K' or 'k' for kilobytes.
- NUMBER
- Unsigned integer.
DIRECTIVES
When an option is not used (hashed or doesn't exist in the configuration file) clamd takes a default action.
- Example
- If this option is set clamd will not run.
- LogFile STRING
- Enable logging to selected file.
Default: disabled - LogFileUnlock
- Disable a system lock that protects against running clamd with a same configuration file multiple times.
Default: disabled - LogFileMaxSize SIZE
- Limit the size of a log file. The logger will be automatically disabled if the file is greater than SIZE. Value of 0 disables the limit.
Default: 1M - LogTime
- Log time with each message.
Default: disabled - LogClean
- Log clean files.
Default: disabled - LogSyslog
- Use system logger (can work together with LogFile).
Default: disabled - LogFacility
- Specify the type of syslog messages - please refer to 'man syslog' for facility names.
Default: LOG_LOCAL6 - LogVerbose
- Enable verbose logging.
Default: disabled - PidFile STRING
- Save the process identifier of a listening daemon (main thread) to a specified file.
Default: disabled - TemporaryDirectory STRING
- Optional path to the global temporary directory.
Default: system specific (usually /tmp or /var/tmp). - DatabaseDirectory STRING
- Path to a directory containing database files.
Default: /var/lib/clamav/ - LocalSocket STRING
- Path to a local (Unix) socket the daemon will listen on.
Default: disabled - FixStaleSocket
- Remove stale socket after unclean shutdown.
Default: disabled - TCPSocket NUMBER
- TCP port number the daemon will listen on.
Default: disabled - TCPAddr STRING
- TCP socket address to bind to. By default clamd binds to INADDR_ANY.
Default: disabled - MaxConnectionQueueLength NUMBER
- Maximum length the queue of pending connections may grow to.
Default: 15 - MaxThreads NUMBER
- Maximal number of threads running at the same time.
Default: 10 - ReadTimeout NUMBER
- Waiting for data from a client socket will timeout after this time (seconds).
Default: 120 - IdleTimeout NUMBER
- Waiting for a new job will timeout after this time (seconds).
Default: 30 - MaxDirectoryRecursion NUMBER
- Maximal depth directories are scanned at.
Default: 15 - FollowDirectorySymlinks
- Follow directory symlinks.
Default: disabled - FollowFileSymlinks
- Follow regular file symlinks.
Default: disabled - SelfCheck NUMBER
- Do internal sanity checks every NUMBER seconds.
Default: 1800 - VirusEvent COMMAND
- Execute the COMMAND when virus is found. In the command string %v will be replaced by a virus name.
Default: disabled - ExitOnOOM
- Stop daemon when libclamav reports out of memory condition.
Default: disabled - User STRING
- AllowSupplementaryGroups
- Initialize supplementary group access (clamd must be started by root).
Default: disabled - Foreground
- Don't fork into background.
Default: disabled - Debug
- Enable debug messages from libclamav.
- LeaveTemporaryFiles
- Do not remove temporary files (for debug purposes).
Default: disabled - StreamMaxLength SIZE
- Clamd uses FTP-like protocol to receive data from remote clients. If you are using clamav-milter to balance load between remote clamd daemons on firewall servers you may need to tune the Stream* options. This option allows you to specify the maximal limit for data transfered to remote daemon when scanning a single file. It should match your MTA's limit for a maximal attachment size.
Default: 10M - StreamMinPort NUMBER
- Limit data port range.
Default: 1024 - StreamMaxPort NUMBER
- Limit data port range.
Default: 2048 - DisableDefaultScanOptions
- By default clamd uses scan options recommended by libclamav. This option disables recommended options and allows you to enable selected options. DO NOT ENABLE IT unless you know what you are doing.
Default: disabled - ScanPE
- PE stands for Portable Executable - it's an executable file format used in all 32-bit versions of Windows operating systems. This option allows ClamAV to perform a deeper analysis of executable files and it's also required for decompression of popular executable packers such as UPX.
Default: enabled - DetectBrokenExecutables
- With this option clamd will try to detect broken executables and mark them as Broken.Executable.
Default: disabled - ScanOLE2
- Enables scanning of Microsoft Office document macros.
Default: enabled - ScanHTML
- Enables HTML detection and normalisation.
Default: enabled - ScanMail
- Enable scanning of mail files.
Default: enabled - MailFollowURLs
- If an email contains URLs ClamAV can download and scan them. WARNING: This option may open your system to a DoS attack. Never use it on loaded servers.
Default: disabled - ScanArchive
- Enable archive scanning.
Default: enabled - ScanRAR
- Enable scanning of RAR archives. Due to license issues libclamav does not support RAR 3.0 archives (only the old 2.0 format is supported). Because some users report stability problems with unrarlib it's disabled by default and must be enabled in the config file.
Default: disabled - ArchiveMaxFileSize SIZE
- Files in archives larger than this limit won't be scanned. Value of 0 disables the limit.
Default: 10M - ArchiveMaxRecursion NUMBER
- Limit archive recursion level. Value of 0 disables the limit.
Default: 8 - ArchiveMaxFiles NUMBER
- Number of files to be scanned within archive. Value of 0 disables the limit.
Default: 1000 - ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio NUMBER
- Analyze compression ratio of every file in an archive and mark potential archive bombs as viruses (0 disables the limit).
Default: 250 - ArchiveLimitMemoryUsage
- Use slower decompression algorithm which uses less memory. This option affects bzip2 decompressor only.
Default: disabled - ArchiveBlockEncrypted
- Mark encrypted archives as viruses (Encrypted.Zip, Encrypted.RAR).
Default: disabled - ArchiveBlockMax
- Mark archives as viruses (e.g RAR.ExceededFileSize, Zip.ExceededFilesLimit) if ArchiveMaxFiles, ArchiveMaxFileSize, or ArchiveMaxRecursion limit is reached.
Default: disabled - ClamukoScanOnAccess
- Enable Clamuko. Dazuko (/dev/dazuko) must be configured and running.
Default: disabled - ClamukoScanOnOpen
- Scan files on open.
Default: disabled - ClamukoScanOnClose
- Scan files on close.
Default: disabled. - ClamukoScanOnExec
- Scan files on execute.
Default: disabled - ClamukoIncludePath STRING
- Set the include paths (all files and directories in them will be scanned). You can have multiple ClamukoIncludePath directives but each directory must be added in a separate line).
Default: disabled - ClamukoExcludePath
- Set the exclude paths. All subdirectories will also be excluded.
Default: disabled - ClamukoMaxFileSize SIZE
- Don't scan files larger than SIZE.
Default: 5M - ClamukoScanArchive
- Enable archive scanning. It uses ArchiveMax* limits.
Default: disabled
Default: disabled
FILES
/etc/clamav/clamd.conf
AUTHOR
Tomasz Kojm <tkojm@clamav.net>