On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Damian Menscher wrote: > 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? > > 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).
Oh yeah, and it automatically handles staggering of updates, thereby protecting the mirrors from dying every hour on the hour. ;) If you run from crontab, be SURE you NEVER update between 0-5 mins after the hour (to make up for all the idiots that ONLY update then). 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
