On 4/23/10 10:46 AM, "Dennis Peterson" <denni...@inetnw.com> wrote:
> On 4/23/10 8:41 AM, Jim Preston wrote: > >> Just a question, but what time is freshclam running? Most of the time a >> majority of people run freshclam at the top of the hour which means you >> are in heavy competition for resources. I have mine set to run via cron >> at ten minutes after the hour. >> >> Jim > > You can easily do better regards lockstep with a simple randomizer in your > script: > I run freshclam as a daemon and use the Checks directive. Never had a problem with it. To avoid the lockstep issue, I always choose an odd number of checks - usually 47 or 49, which is every half hour +/- about 2 and 1/3 minute. The half-hour poling cycle is recommended if you are running safebrowsing signatures, and the ~2 minute offset rolls me through the clock so I don't camp out on any particular time. >From previous e-mails, I recall that Dennis has had trouble with the daemonized freshclam, so YMMV, but in my experience over the past 5 years or so on 8 various flavors and ages of Mandriva Linux, I've not experienced a single problem with freshclam as a daemon. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
