Clam Daemon(8)            Clam AntiVirus           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 /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf

COMMANDS
       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.

       RAWSCAN file/directory
              Scan a file or directory (recursively) with archive
              support disabled. 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. It's  recom-
              mended  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  new-
              line  is  read.  The newline delimiter assures that
              the complete command and its entire  argument  will
              be processed as a single command.

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
       /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf

CREDITS
       Please check the full documentation for credits.

AUTHOR
       Tomasz Kojm 

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



ClamAV 0.90             February 12, 2007          Clam Daemon(8)