* Fajar A. Nugraha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20040217 12:52]: wrote:
> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 
> >How do people run freshclam in daemon mode, 
> >
> I'm not sure what you mean here.
> Tried freshclam -d yet?

From cron???

> 
> >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 :

At the moment I run it via cron like this:

0 */8 * * * root /usr/local/bin/freshclam --quiet -d -c 4 -l 
/usr/local/share/clamav/clam-update.log


> Again, I'm not sure if this is what you meant.

I meant like running clamd in daemon mode ;)



        cheers
       - wash 
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