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?
 
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Chris
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