On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Daniel S. Cohen wrote: > I am wondering if there is any advantage of running freshclam as a > daemon as oppposed to running it from the crontab a few times day?
Yes. It maintains job security since it's another process that has the potential to crash, thereby requiring you to restart it. If you ran it from crontab, you might get laid off due to the system being so stable it didn't need an admin. More seriously, it saves init from forking another process for each check, and might buy you something in terms of having a fixed PID. Or maybe your system doesn't support cron (or has it disabled for users). It's also convenient that it restricts the frequency of checks to 50/day (unlimited if you enable DNS checks) and thereby prevents jerks from checking for updates every 5 minutes. Damian Menscher -- -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- -=#| 4602 Beckman, VMIL/MS, Imaging Technology Group:(217)244-3074 |#=- -=#| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- -=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers. |#=- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
