On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:10:25 +0200 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Salvatore Basso"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi, I have installed version 0.80 on fedora core 2 and I have used
> file .rpm. The installation it's ok and at boot of my machine to start
> demon 'clamd' and 'freshclam' correctly. Now for schedule update,
> default is:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/freshclam
> 
> .. therefore the update is to do every day, but if I want to schedule
> update every hour (and no every day) I must move the file freshcleam
> from directory /etc/cron.daily/ to /etc/cron.hourly ??..sorry for my
> banal question.

No, the Checks parameter in freshclam.conf determines the update
frequency for the pattern files.

The /etc/cron.daily/freshclam entry is used to clean up/var/lib/clamav
if any files in there have not been accessed in 72 hours. Except for the
.cvd files of course, it does a touch on those.

-- 

Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

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