0019401: Add option to exclude file types from daily scan

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0019401

ClearOS

app-file-scan - Antimalware File Scan

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2018-03-21 05:24

2019-11-23 05:02

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NickH

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NickH

Priority

normal

Severity

tweak

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

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suspended

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7.4.0

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Summary

0019401: Add option to exclude file types from daily scan

Description

Currently the file scanner app scans all files and folders within the selected locations. Many file types are considered harmless such as jpg's and could be excluded from daily scans. As an example my IP security camera produces some 3800 jpg's yesterday and I keep a few days of history. A full scan including these takes over 2h.

It would be trivial to read in parameters exclude= and exclude-dir= from /etc/clearos/file_scan.conf by adding these lines to /use/sbin/file_scan:

            elseif ($param == 'exclude')
                $clam_scan_options .= " --$param=$value";
            elseif ($param == 'exclude-dir')
                $clam_scan_options .= " --$param=$value";

after the lines:

            elseif ($param == 'max-scansize')
                $clam_scan_options .= " --$param=$value";

This can be documented in the help text as the max-scansize and max-filesize are at the moment.

Longer term this could be the precursor to adding the parameters to the Webconfig.

Note that clamscan allows these parameters to be repeated multiple times, but we don't necessarily need to to start with as a regex such as --exclude="\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|mkv)$" can cover multiple file types.

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(0012401) NickH (developer) 2019-11-23 05:01	Migrated to https://gitlab.com/clearos/clearfoundation/app-file-scan/issues/1 [^]

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2018-03-21 05:24	NickH	New Issue
2018-03-21 08:01	user2	Status	new => confirmed
2019-11-23 05:02	NickH	Note Added: 0012401
2019-11-23 05:02	NickH	Status	confirmed => closed
2019-11-23 05:02	NickH	Assigned To	=> NickH
2019-11-23 05:02	NickH	Resolution	open => suspended

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