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 /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  dis-
              abled in clamd.conf). 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 recommended 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 newline 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
       /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 0.94.1                           February 12, 2007                          Clam Daemon(8)