Ansible Role: ClamAV

Installs ClamAV on RedHat/CentOS/Amazon and Debian/Ubuntu Linux servers.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

clamav_packages:
  - clamav
  - clamav-base
  - clamav-daemon

(Defaults for Debian/Ubuntu shown). List of packages to be installed for ClamAV operations.

clamav_daemon_localsocket: /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl
clamav_daemon_config_path: /etc/clamav/clamd.conf

Path configuration for ClamAV daemon. These are hardcoded specifically for each OS family (Debian and Red Hat) and cannot be overidden.

clamav_daemon_configuration_changes:
  - regexp: '^.*Example$'
    state: absent
  - regexp: '^.*LocalSocket .*$'
    line: 'LocalSocket {{ clamav_daemon_localsocket }}'

Changes to make to the configuration file that is read from when ClamAV starts. You need to at least comment the 'Example' line and open a LocalSocket (or TCPSocket, e.g. 3310 by default) to get the ClamAV daemon to run.

clamav_daemon_state: started
clamav_daemon_enabled: yes

Control whether the clamav-daemon service is running and/or enabled on system boot.

clamav_freshclam_daemon_state: started
clamav_freshclam_daemon_enabled: yes

Control whether the clamav-freshclam service is running and/or enabled on system boot.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

    - hosts: servers
      sudo: yes
      roles:
        - ansible-role-clamav 

Requirements.yaml

- src: git+https://github.com/rbd80/ansible-role-clamav.git
  version: master

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

Updated to support Amazon This role was sourced from Jeff Geerling.