> I can't understand why everyone runs this through cron when it doesn't > eat much memory or cpu cycles when run as a daemon?
Because with cron, one can vary the minutes-after-the-hour, to have finer control over when it runs. Or to have it run more frequently on certain days than on others... Or.... Whatever. I'm sure the scheduling engine used by cron is far more flexible than the one built into freshclam. Perhaps I know of a scheduled network outage window.... With cron I can schedule around that outage window. It might also be to help document the system for other admins who might not think to look for application-specific scheduling and whose first instinct is to look at "crontab -l"... I can think of lots of reasons. _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
