Hi there, On Sat, 29 Jan 2022, Dorian ROSSE via clamav-users wrote:
I was added freshclam on the Cron job,
The freshclam utility can run in two ways. It can run and then stop, or it can run indefintely (then it is what we call a 'daemon'). The configuration and the commands you give determine what it does. You need to decide how you are going to use it, configure it, and give it the proper commands to suit your needs. Read the man page for more. I suspect that you have freshclam configured to run as a daemon when you are attempting to start it regularly from the crontab using the same configuration. That is certain to cause problems, because there will already be a freshclam process running when another one tries to start, and they will both be trying to modify the same files etc.... Welcome to the administration of a multi-tasking, multi-user system. :) If you have freshclam running as a daemon then you will *not* want to start another instance of it using the same configuration. You could theoretically run more than one freshclam instance - with different configurations for each instance - but that would be advanced usage. I could just about imagine reasons why someone would want to do it, but it would at least involve multiple signature providers and I'd be willing to bet that you aren't doing anything like that. Most people probably start freshclam at system boot, and let it run until the next boot or an upgrade. That's what I do. There's no need to involve cron at all. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
