> I'm not sure how that could have happened. Did you choose cron in the > debconf setup, or something else? I wouldn't mind getting to > the bottom of this.
I really don't recall the setup process. I believe I visited http://sial.org/howto/clamav/freshclam/ and took the following sentence to heart: "The freshclam utility can be run as a daemon, or called periodically from a scheduler. Due to the infrequent need for updates, I recommend against running freshclam as a daemon." Perhaps I misunderstood it, but I read that as meaning to use cron instead. I think that there was slightly more to it than that, perhaps I was getting errors running freshclam as defang user? Or perhaps not. Sorry I can't be more informative, but I think relying on computers has fried my memory! ~:-) I was wondering, though, why it was necessary for the configuration to fail simply because the freshclam update frequency (i.e. 'checks') was set to zero. Surely this is a perfectly valid frequency? Perhaps a warning might have been more appropriate - "WARNING: You have switched off virus updates (checks = 0) in freshclam.conf". It would have saved me from posting my query - but then again I would have missed all the banter, which would have been a shame! Thanks for all the help! Chris. _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
