[CentOS] clamscan --exclude problems

Bob Chiodini robert.chiodini-1 at ksc.nasa.gov
Tue Jan 17 12:18:37 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 22:34 -0600, rado wrote:
> this is strange to me but maybe not to y'all
> I use clamscan --exclude in other places but this certain one will not
> work...
> 
> let me put up my fstab before I explain k:
> 
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> LABEL=/          /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot1     /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none             /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none             /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> none             /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/rbbu      /rbbu                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none             /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=SWAP-hda2  swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hdb      /media/cdrecorder  auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> /dev/fd0      /media/floppy      auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> 
> kk...the line: LABEL=/rbbu
> 
> /rbbu is hdc. it's a 250gb drive just to act as a backup server for
> various machines.
> 
> I want to clamscan the whole system excluding /rbbu
>  clamscan --exclude=/rbbu /
> 
> just a very basic line...of course there is much more to the real one
> but this is the problem child.
> 
> considering the LABEL=/rbbu and /rbbu being the mount point ....I
> believe this might be where the problem lies but I'm not sure.
> 
> If I must, I could rename the mount point to something else and now
> thinking bout it, would not cause that many problems...just a lot of
> tweaking in lots of scripts which I would rather not but if y'all feel
> that's the fix then it will be done!
> 
> thx,
> 
> John Rose 

John,

How about --exclude-dir=/rbbu?  Also, insure that clamscan doesn't scan
anything linked to /rbbu.

Bob...




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