From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 09:14:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A79316A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from makeworld.com (chcgil2-ar9-4-60-214-019.chcgil2.dsl-verizon.net [4.60.214.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2BCC43D2F for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:14:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net (racerx@evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.46.162.188]) by makeworld.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2CHEZSR094186 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:14:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) From: Chris To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:14:34 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <200403120926.04419.racerx@makeworld.com> <200403121036.45593.algould@datawok.com> <4051EFC8.3060509@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4051EFC8.3060509@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403121114.34860.racerx@makeworld.com> Subject: Re: F-Prot for BSD WorkStation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:14:38 -0000 On Friday 12 March 2004 11:13 am, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Friday 12 March 2004 10:20 am, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > [ ... ] > > >> You might find that doing the full system scan takes up a lot of > >> resources for some time (possibly hours), but that probably only matters > >> if you happen to want to use the machine for something else then. > > > > I also use ClamAV. > > > > If resource utilization is an issue, the scanning strategy could be > > changed to scan only email and /home areas frequently. Full system scans > > could be scheduled less frequently and during periods of low utilization. > > This is good advice, although one should beware that "/home" may comprise > the vast majority of the storage space in use, particularly for companies, > universities, and other organizations with lots of people. 9GB for the > boot volume, ~75 GB for homedirs, and ~30GB for other files is what one > fileserver of mine looks like. I see where you all are going with this. Certainly makes sence to trim down the possible places to scan. Thank you all for the insight. -- Best regards, Chris