On Wednesday 01 July 2015 04:22:29 Al Varnell wrote: > The default in the source code is 12 times a day. > > > # Number of database checks per day. > > # Default: 12 (every two hours) > > #Checks 24 > > The Troubleshooting FAQ <https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq/blob/master/faq/faq-troubleshoot.md> still says: > > • How many times per hour shall I run freshclam? > > If you are running ClamAV 0.8x or later, you can check for database > > update as often as 4 times per hour provided that you have the > > following options in freshclam.conf: > > DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net > > DatabaseMirror db.XY.clamav.net
The above is from a several year old install as db.local.clamav.net changed to db.us.clamav.net now. > > DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net > > Replace XY with your "country code":iana. If you don't have that > > option, then you must stick with 1 check per hour. > > -Al- And since htop runs as root here, I just sent freshclam a SIGHUP, which should make it reread the /etc/freshclam.conf file. A tail on the log does not show them however, so it must be sleeping pretty soundly. I'll see what hapopens when it next wakes up a few seconds after 6am local. > On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 01:09 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 30.06.15 09:26, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> While personally investigating it here, I came to > >> /etc/freshclam.conf, and discovered it was checking hourly. IMO > >> that is really severe abuse of a free service, so I reset it to 12x > >> daily and may even set it down to 2x a day. > > > > the default seems to be 48 daily checks, so I wouldn't consider 24 > > checks a day to be abuse... imho it's better to have fresh database. > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml Thanks Al. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
