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I want to schedule a daily scan in my Home directory using ClamAv. Can anybody explain me how to perform such task using a bash script? I don't need to scan mails, just Home directory and maybe other directories. Thank you
P.s.: I don't really need it, but is there a way to perform a scan on the whole pc?
I would use cron for this instead of strictly using bash. In the directory /etc/cron.daily/ create a small script clamavscan.sh that looks like:
#!/bin/sh
clamscan /home/username/
Then be sure to make the script executable with chmod +x clamavscan.sh.
This should run the clamscan of your home directory once daily at 6:25 (as you can see in the file /etc/crontab).
To have ClamAV scan you entire machine, you should just be able to run clamscan /, although this might require root privileges to really scan everything.
clamavscan.sh script that somehow alerts you to make a decision. At the very least you can redirect the output of the clamscan so you have a logfile to check for threats.
Mar 23, 2016 at 2:30
I've been trying to create a similar cron job myself today. I went a slightly different route. I opened up /etc/crontab and added the following job:
0 18 * * SUN root rm -rf /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
1 18 * * SUN root freshclam
22 18 * * SUN root clamscan -r -i / | grep FOUND >> /home/osamu/virus-scan-reports/virus-scan-report-`date +"\%d-\%m-\%Y"`.txt
If someone else has a better way to schedule regular virus scans including updating the known virus database please reply this thread.
