On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:51:02PM -0500, Chris said:
> On Sunday 21 August 2005 01:24 pm, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> 
> > > the other as I had set it up in the cronjob with -d -c 24.  I take it
> > > then that the cronjob is not necessary to restart freshclam and that all
> > > variables
> > > are read from the /etc/freshclam.conf file.  Is that a correct
> > > assumption?
> >
> > I prefer to run freshclam out of cron as it means I don't need to create a
> > daemon monitoring process for freshclam. I also prefer to use a randomizer
> > to avoid piling on the servers - don't, for example, run cron at cardinal
> > time points. Here's a script I adapted from an a submission in this list:
> >
> >
> Since I had a cronjob to start freshclam on boot and it apparently was 
> started 
> by another means also, how to only have it run from the cronjob?

er, disable the init script?  Where that script lives is dependant on
your platform.
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