From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 09:31:40 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 3CD3616A4D0 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:31:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2821043D41 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:31:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 20-74.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.20.74] helo=localhost.invalid) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1B1qVX-00035z-00; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:31:39 -0800 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:31:53 -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: <200403121131.53540.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b669e2965c418466aea90e95ee441de0a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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 17:31:40 -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. **Very** good point. I often forget to consider the differences in perspective between "small" use users such as myself (me and a handful of data analysts at work + home use) and large network administrators. Andrew Gould