On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 13:26 +0200, Pascal Duchatelle wrote: > Hello, > I am not that much experienced with linux. > I would like to have freshclam doing updates by itself. Until now I did > the update manually. > The clamav-update file in my /etc/cron.d directory is as follow: > > ## Adjust this line... > MAILTO=root,postmaster,webmaster,clamav > > ## It is ok to execute it as root; freshclam drops privileges and > becomes > ## user 'clamav' as soon as possible go
vi /etc/cron.hourly/freshclam then add /usr/local/bin/freshclam --quiet -l /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log Then save and then: chmod 0755 /etc/cron.hourly/freshclam It will run updates every hour, if you want to update once a day then use cron.daily if once a week use cron.weekly. > 0 */3 * * * root /usr/share/clamav/freshclam-sleep > > how should I edit it to have it work ? > > The shell script freshclam-sleep it is supposed to run "points" to a > freshclam file in the /etc/sysconfig directoryand in this file I > commmented (#) the FRESHCLAM_DELAY=disabled-warn line > > From what I understand, the freshclam-sleep script should be run > every 3 hours. The cron.hourly directory is empty. > Also I gathered that I should add a line in the/my crontab to run > freshclam as a cron task. > Before I mess everything up, can someone tell me how to set the cron > thing to run freshclam this way. > Thanx in advance. > Pascal > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
