> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:38 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:13, rado wrote: > > > although I did enjoy playing w/this as I had never any experience w/the > > "-exec" command...well, it produced about the same amt of files to send > > to rsync w/no clamscan errors that would stop it but it took approx 1 hr > > to complete. > > For programs that take multiple filenames on the command line it is > much more efficient to pipe the list to xargs instead of using > exec which will start the program over again for every file. > However, if you have filenames with embedded spaces, shell > metacharacters or newlines, you can have problems as xargs > presents them on a command line to the program. On GNU based > systems you can use the -print0 argument to find and -0 to > xargs to make them pass the filenames null-terminated and > quote them correctly on the command line. When I saw your > first post I wondered if you had filenames with *'s or > spaces that made clamscan see directories after the shell > parsing and then waste time with its own recursion. > > > also, it seems that no matter what I tried I cannot get find to stop > > looking in /proc lol > > One way is to use the -mount argument and make separate runs for > each filesystem. That also avoids the problem of wandering into > isos/dvd's/nfs mounts, etc. whoa...I run CentOS as generic and simply as possible. Only thing I am guilty of is bash shell lol. I don't even run nfs anywhere! ...my fstab: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/md1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/md0 /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 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 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 oh my, Les!!! as I was editing the spacing in this fstab, something hit me! ...the /proc line and the /sys line could they be the culprits that have been giving me fits??? ok...I'm too tired tonite...gonna stop right here...tomorrow nite first thing, I am gonna google around see if I can find some "proper syntax" for this -mount deal...I read the man...just bounced off me for now. thx Les John Rose