* 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 +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Odhiambo Washington . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) | <wash at wananchi dot com> . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., | GSM: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI | GSM: (+254) 733 744 121 . (+254) 020 313 985 - 9 | +---------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users