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8. Configuration File

The common configuration of AVG for Linux E-mail Server command line modules

is covered in the

avg.conf file, usually located in the /opt/grisoft/avg7/etc

directory. The general syntax of the configuration file is described as follows:

...

# comments

[<section_name>]

<parameter_name> = <value1> <value2>

<parameter_name> = <value3> # comments

...

[<yet_another_section>]

<parameter_for_this_section> = <its_value>

...

The '#' character indicates a comment – the rest of the line following this character

is ignored and will not be processed.

The square brackets ('[' and ']' characters) enclose a section name. All entries

following the section specification until another section specification (or end of file)

are considered as configuration options related to the respective section.

The entries for each section consist of the

parameter name and its value (or

values) specified after the '=' character. The values can be either numeric (integer)

or strings. The numeric 1/0 values usually represent enabling/disabling of the

respective feature specified by the parameter name.

Multiple values for one parameter can be separated by white space characters (for

example space, tabulator, etc.) or by a new line (the parameter name must be

given again in this case).

If you are logged in as root, you can change the parameter values directly in the

configuration file

avg.conf using any plain text editor (e.g. vi, vim, pico, joe, gedit,

emacs, jed, jedit, ed, …).

The configuration file consists of four sections.

8.1. AvgCommon

Configuration of the common features of AVG for Linux E-mail Server memory

resident services (daemons) in general:

z runtimeCompression – scanning of files with runtime compression; possible

values are 0 or 1; the default value is 1 (runtime compression scanning

enabled)