> What I'm looking for is a way to delay Freshclam's search for updates > upon booting, something like 2 minutes; or in general, to have more > control over its scheduling. I don't see a relevant parameter in > /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf, or anything in the crontab folders. My MX > Linux system uses init.d rather than system.d.
You could add a simple bash sleep statement to the appropriate init.d/cron file. IIRC some systems will run cron jobs that were missed while the system was turned off... I have no experience with MX Linux so I don't know where / what is triggering freshclam on startup. # Sleep random amount of time before proceeding sleep $(expr $RANDOM % 900) _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
