On Sunday 21 August 2005 02:09 pm, René Berber wrote: > Chris wrote: > > I've just installed ClamAV last night and after reading through the > > archives I setup a cronjob to restart freshclam on boot. I got a chance > > to test this today since my box decided that it wasn't going to play > > anymore, after the reboot I noticed two freshclam processes running, one > > with no variables and 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? > > You have it all wrong, the -d parameter means (man freshclam): > > -d, --daemon > Run in a daemon mode. This option requires --checks. > > So you either run freshclam once with -d or run it from cron without -d.
I realize that, my cronjob reads "freshclam -d -c 24 which runs in damon mode and makes 24 checks in a 24hr period. Or, at least that's the way I interpreted the man page. > > And your statement about "setup a cronjob to restart freshclam on boot" is > wrong, if you want something to start on boot you set that on the > /etc/init.d directory and related /etc/rc?.d (or equivalent since this > changes from Unix to Unix), you don't use cron for that. When using webmin to setup a cronjob you have an option: When to execute Run on selected schedule .. Run at times selected below .. I have it set to "Run on selected schedule - when system boots" > > If you don't know what you are doing then start by reading the > documentation. I read the man pages, maybe I misinterpreted them! > > HTH -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 14:14:59 up 1:58, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.37, 0.32 Mandriva Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
