Matt Fretwell said: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> > any ideas? i'm thinking about cobbling together something >> > in perl to run from a cron job. > > >> Screw the daemon - run it out of cron. > > > At last, a sensible suggestion :) Cronning it does make the daemon > hanging pretty much a moot point :) >
Damn right. Just be sure to use a random time so you don't land in lockstep with those who don't. You can imagine the load it could impose if everyone checked for patterns on the hour or regular fraction thereof. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
