Freshclam conf user manual

Currently, ClamAV requires users to edit their clamd.conf.example file before they can run the daemon. At a bare minimum, users will need to comment out the line that reads "Example" Also read the on-access section of the Usage manual for further details on using On-Access Scanning. freshclam.conf. ## ## Example config file for freshclam. ## Please read the freshclam.conf(5) manual before editing this file. #HTTPProxyUsername myusername. #HTTPProxyPassword mypass. # If your servers are behind a firewall/proxy which applies User-Agent. ## Example config file for freshclam ## Please read the freshclam.conf(5) manual before editing this file. ## # # Path to a local socket file the daemon will listen on. # Default: disabled (must be specified by a user) #LocalSocket /var/run/clamd.scan/clamd.sock. ## ## Example config file for freshclam ## Please read the freshclam.conf(5) manual before editing this file. ## # If your servers are behind a firewall/proxy which applies User-Agent # filtering you can use this option to force the use of a different # User-Agent header. freshclam daemon (or clamav-freshclam) — Daemon that periodically checks for We are running clamdscan as the root user, this is important if we are 6. Excluding directories from scanning using "clamd.conf". There is a configuration file located at /etc/clamav/clamd.conf, which allows a finer However, I cannot edit the file entitled: etc/freshclamav.freshclam.conf. Please, nobody send me to some utterly useless man page. If I could understand the man pages, I'd have no need to post. line from freshclam.conf and /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf in default locatiof of clamd.conf! ## It is ok to execute it as root; freshclam drops privileges and becomes ## user 'clamupdate' as ARCH: x86_64, CPU: x86_64) Jan 05 14:45:08 Centos7-min clamd[13588]: Running as user clamscan (UID 995, GID Example config file for freshclam ## Please read the clamav.conf(5) manual before editing this file. # # This file may be optionally merged with clamav.conf. ## # By default when freshclam is started by root it drops privileges and # switches to the "clamav" user. You can change this behaviour here.