Re: [clamav-users] what initiates freshclam? [OT]

2022-01-07 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, January 07, 2022 10:45 AM -0500 Kris Deugau wrote: IIRC most of that one can be laid at the feet of the kernel developers trying to make hardware enumeration more predictable, and systemd is just one of several places the sysadmin can try to clean up the pieces. Agreed. I recomm

Re: [clamav-users] what initiates freshclam? [OT]

2022-01-07 Thread Kris Deugau
G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: IMHO this is a pretty unconvincing reason to change your init system, especially to one which is both as new as systemd, and as capable of stupidity on a scale never before seen in any init system.  A couple of examples here (the wanton renaming of Ethernet in

Re: [clamav-users] what initiates freshclam? [OT]

2022-01-07 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Kenneth Porter wrote: ... One reason to switch to systemd is that you no longer need to implement a random delay in your own script to reduce server load from lots of client scripts slamming the server at the top of the hour. See the RandomizedDelaySec and Fixed

Re: [clamav-users] what initiates freshclam?

2022-01-07 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, January 06, 2022 7:51 PM + novpenguincne via clamav-users wrote: Mystery solved. I checked for cron jobs but I only looked in /var/spool/cron and didn't think to check in /etc/crond.d. Long ago (before systemd) the Red Hat family stopped using the root crontab for periodi