Freshclam via cron....
What sort of update intervals are people using, and can someone show me a working crontab entry? I've tried calling freshclam like this via a crontab entry
06 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/freshclam
BUt it doesn't seem to work. Which means I'm probably missing somethign obvious.
I have # ClamAV 57 12 * * * /usr/bin/freshclam --quiet
and it means run once a day, at 12:57, every day, every month, every week day, and (cron) don't send me messages that it ran.
If you have a mail server you should run it more often, your cron line says once at 0:06 hours.
In different implementations of cron there is the possibility of using several variants, for instance:
57 12/2 * * * /usr/bin/freshclam --quiet
would mean run every 2 hours starting at 12:57, this is for Paul Vixie's cron implementation.
In other cron implementations (the one in Solaris for instance) the same would have to be written explicitly:
57 12,14,16,18,20,22,0,2,4,6,8,10 * * * /usr/bin/freshclam --quiet
So, read your cron and crontab (usually 2) manuals. -- René
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