On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 16:35, Lionel Bouton wrote: > Once an hour is fine, but if you use crontab please add a once randomly > chosen sleep between 0 and 3599 second before launching freshclam. > As lots of people using crontab put something like 0 * * * * ... The > database mirrors have huge peaks of bandwidth usage each hour (and > what's not good for the mirrors isn't good for the virus db availability). > > Something like : > > # echo $[ $RANDOM % 3600 ] > 0 * * * * sleep <value_given_above>; freshclam --quiet
Why didn't I think of that?!? :-) To add more randomness, I did it like so (on a Linux box where bash is always available): SHELL=/bin/bash 0 * * * * sleep $[ $RANDOM % 3600 ] ; /usr/bin/freshclam --quiet This does seem more polite than hitting it hard, right on the hour. -Luke -- Luke Scharf, Systems Administrator Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean Engineering ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users