Why clamav is running by itself ?

frenchn00b · 04-16-2008, 11:58 AM

Code:

$ ps -aux | grep clam
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
clamav    2411 90.4  6.9  40924 35752 ?        Rs   18:48   7:05 /usr/sbin/clamd

Hello, there is nothing into my /etc/fstab of clamav, and I see with conky and top, that clamav is running a process that I have no idea what. My user is frenchn00b running xorg.

Why does it do that ?

thanks

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

bigrigdriver · 04-16-2008, 01:06 PM

It appears that clamav is running as a daemon (/usr/sbin/clamd). It would not show in /etc/fstab, which is a listing of mountable devices/filesystems.

Since clamd is a daemon process, it only runs when there is something to run on, such as incoming/outgoing mail.

Inspect your clamav configuration file(s) to see when clamd is supposed to wake up and do something.

Bosk22 · 04-16-2008, 01:06 PM

Hi

Clamd is the antivirus program that runs in the background. It is run by the user ClamAv which is automatically created by the install program and is normally nothing to worry about.

Clamd has nothing to do with your fstab file as it is a program and not a filesystem.

Bosk