> > On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:57:23 -0800 (PST) > Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I accept your points Dennis, I'm just puzzled that people have so much > trouble with freshclam daemons. I have used it for years and find it > 100% reliable after a few problems with settings in the early months.
It's just a best practice for any daemon. You wouldn't let a critical web server run without monitoring would you? > > I use a non standard interval so that the timing drifts relative to the > clock time (on the hour at least). > > Horses for courses, but I feel that cron is more for the rare cases > where freshclam doesn't seem to work properly. In my experience it has > been very reliable. > Different strokes, I guess. I'd be more concerned about memory leaks and a daemon that has gone stupid. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
