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ClamAV VirusEvent not working...

Hi,

I have setup ClamAV on CentOS 4 (RH 4), I have also got Clamuko (real time scanner) working as well.

In the clamd.conf I have put in this line to email me when a virus is found...

Code:

VirusEvent echo %v | mail -s "A virus has been found on the Office Server" my@email.com < /var/log/clamav/clamd.log

This works fine when Clamuko finds the Virus using its real time scanning and I receive an email.

But, when I do a manual scan with clamscan it finds the virus but I do not get emailed.

The VirusEvent should be executed whenever a virus is found, but obviously it is not. Has anyone got any ideas when this is?

Thanks,
Tim

clamd.conf is the config file for the clamd daemon. When you scan with clamscan, you're not using clamd.

[edit: to elaborate, if you want to do manual scanning and still make use of clamd, you should use clamdscan instead of clamscan.]

Thanks! That would be the problem :-)

Tim