Steven P. Donegan wrote:Well, being the geek from the 60's who counts CPU cycles and RAM usage I don't run any daemon I can avoid - silly of me in these days I guess - probably why I still code in C rather than C++/Java/Pick your way-too-much-inherited-stuff language :-)
Hmmm, I just do a freshclam from chron rather than let it run as a daemon - as a new user (I just downloaded, installed, integrated with my anti-spam/anti-virus proxy - home built, today). Is doing this in any way a negative thing?
I don't think it hurts, and from the reports of freshclam dying, it might be better for now. Just make sure you don't have your cron job running on the hour. Too many people do that, and it really loads up the servers. Pick a random number for the minutes after the hour.
I do run my freshclam with --daemon, and have it set to do 13 checks a day. So it gets started at a random time when the server boots, and since 13 doesn't go into 24 evenly, it always checks on a different minute mark. I guess eventually I'll hit the hour and then it will take over 6000 more updates to hit on the hour again. :)
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At some point I'll look into the clam code itself and see if I can contribute anything - but at present I'm working on my own SMTP proxy with anti-spam/anti-virus/SPF support (the only 'email caller id' thing with usable code out there so far) etc. Right now that toy is killing 90+ percent of the garbage email that comes in to the 20+ domains I host here. Small, but progress.
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