Configuration Parameters

The Dr.Web ConfigD daemon uses configuration parameters specified in the [Root] section of the unified configuration file of Dr.Web Mail Security Suite.

The section contains the following parameters:

Parameter

Description

DefaultLogLevel

{logging level}

Default event logging level for all Dr.Web Mail Security Suite components.

The value of this parameter is used if a custom logging level is not specified for some component.

Default value: Notice

LogLevel

{logging level}

Logging level of the Dr.Web ConfigD component.

Default value: Notice

Log

{log type}

Logging method of the configuration daemon and of those components for which another value of this parameter is not specified.

Upon its initial startup, before the configuration file is read, the configuration daemon uses the following values of the parameter:

•as a daemon (if run with the -d option)—SYSLOG:Daemon;

•Stderr otherwise.

If a component is operating in the background (was started with the -d option from the command line), the Stderr value cannot be used for this parameter.

Default value: SYSLOG:Daemon

PublicSocketPath

{path to file}

Path to the socket used for interaction by all Dr.Web Mail Security Suite components.

Default value: /var/run/.com.drweb.public

AdminSocketPath

{path to file}

Path to the socket used for interaction by Dr.Web Mail Security Suite components with elevated (administrative) privileges.

Default value: /var/run/.com.drweb.admin

CoreEnginePath

{path to file}

Path to the dynamic library of Dr.Web Virus-Finding Engine.

Default value:

•for GNU/Linux: /var/opt/drweb.com/lib/drweb32.dll

•for FreeBSD: /var/drweb.com/lib/drweb32.dll

VirusBaseDir

{path to directory}

Path to the directory with virus database files.

Default value:

•for GNU/Linux: /var/opt/drweb.com/bases

•for FreeBSD: /var/drweb.com/bases

KeyPath

{path to file}

Path to the key file (license or demo).

Default value:

•for GNU/Linux: /etc/opt/drweb.com/drweb32.key

•for FreeBSD: /usr/local/etc/drweb.com/drweb32.key

CacheDir

{path to directory}

Path to the cache directory (being used to store cache for updates as well as cache for information about scanned files).

Default value:

•for GNU/Linux: /var/opt/drweb.com/cache

•for FreeBSD: /var/drweb.com/cache

TempDir

{path to directory}

Path to the directory with temporary files.

Default value: Path copied from the system environment variable TMPDIR, TMP, TEMP or TEMPDIR (the environment variables are searched in this particular order). Otherwise /tmp, if none of them was found.

RunDir

{path to directory}

Path to the directory with all PID files of running components and sockets used for interaction by Dr.Web Mail Security Suite components.

Default value: /var/run

VarLibDir

{path to directory}

Path to the directory with libraries used by Dr.Web Mail Security Suite components.

Default value:

•for GNU/Linux: /var/opt/drweb.com/lib

•for FreeBSD: /var/drweb.com/lib

VersionDir

{path to directory}

Path to a directory, where the information about the current versions of Dr.Web Mail Security Suite components is stored.

Default value:

•for GNU/Linux: /var/opt/drweb.com/version

•for FreeBSD: /var/drweb.com/version

DwsDir

{path to directory}

Path to the directory that contains files of an automatically updated database of web resource categories.

Default value:

•for GNU/Linux: /var/opt/drweb.com/dws

•for FreeBSD: /var/drweb.com/dws

AdminGroup

{group name | GID}

Group of users with administrative privileges for Dr.Web Mail Security Suite management. These users, in addition to the superuser (the root user), are allowed to elevate privileges of Dr.Web Mail Security Suite components to superuser privileges.

Default value: Defined automatically during Dr.Web Mail Security Suite installation

TrustedGroup

{group name | GID}

Group of trusted users. The parameter is used by the SpIDer Gate network traffic monitoring component. Network traffic of such users is skipped by SpIDer Gate.

Default value: drweb

DebugIpc

{logical}

Log or do not log detailed IPC messages at the debug level (with LogLevel = DEBUG). These messages reflect interaction of the configuration management daemon with other components.

Default value: No

UseCloud

{logical}

Use or do not use the Dr.Web Cloud service to receive information about whether files and URLs are malicious or not.

Default value: No

AntispamCorePath

{path to file}

Path to the library that is used to scan email messages for spam (if such feature is supported by the product).

Default value:

•for GNU/Linux: /var/opt/drweb.com/lib/vaderetro.so

•for FreeBSD: /var/drweb.com/lib/vaderetro.so

AntispamDir

{path to directory}

Path to the directory that contains the files used by the antispam library.

Default value:

•for GNU/Linux: /var/opt/drweb.com/antispam

•for FreeBSD: /var/drweb.com/antispam

VersionNotification

{logical}

Notify or do not notify the user of updates for the current version of Dr.Web Mail Security Suite.

Default value: Yes

UseVxcube

{logical}

Use or do not use Dr.Web vxCube to analyze email attachments as an external filter connected to the MTA.

Default value: No

VxcubeApiAddress

{string}

Domain name (FQDN) or IP address of a host running the Dr.Web vxCube API server to be connected to.

Default value: (not specified)

VxcubeApiKey

{string}

Dr.Web vxCube API key.

Default value: (not specified)

VxcubeProxyUrl

{connection address}

Address of the proxy server used for connecting to Dr.Web vxCube.

Only HTTP proxies without authorization are supported.

Possible values: <connection address>—proxy server connection parameters in the following format: http://<host>:<port>, where:

•<host> is the host address of the proxy server (an IP address or a domain name, i.e. FQDN);

•<port> is the port to be used.

Default value: (not specified)