How do people run freshclam in daemon mode,
I'm not sure what you mean here. Tried freshclam -d yet?
as opposed to via crontab?
Well, when people put entry in crontab 0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/freshclam
all updates will happen at hour-change (bad for database mirrors). If you run freshclam -d, it will check for updates every few hours. Suppose I run freshclam -d at Tue Feb 17 05:01:13 2004, and have Checks 12 in my freshclam.conf. Then updates will happen like these :
ClamAV update process started at Tue Feb 17 07:01:13 2004
main.cvd is up to date (version: 19, sigs: 19987, f-level: 1, builder: ddm)
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 131, sigs: 737, f-level: 1, builder: tomek)
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ClamAV update process started at Tue Feb 17 09:01:15 2004
main.cvd is up to date (version: 19, sigs: 19987, f-level: 1, builder: ddm)
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 131, sigs: 737, f-level: 1, builder: tomek)
It does not randomize minutes like if you put RANDOM in your crontab,
but considering that it is unlikely for all people to run freshclam -d at exactly the same time,
updates will occur at different minutes. Thus lessen(or distribute) database mirror load.
Again, I'm not sure if this is what you meant.
Regards,
Fajar A. Nugraha
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