On 01/08/18 16:24, Dominic Raferd wrote: > > I think it should be determined by freshclam.conf, which in my case is > at /etc/clamav (and is shown as such in my 'man freshclam'). On my > system (Ubuntu 18.04) freshclam is run by systemd (as > clamav-freshclam), but it knows not to run if > /etc/cron.d/clamav-freshclam exists (which it doesn't in my case), as > presumably in this case freshclam is being run from cron. My setting > in freshclam.conf is to update every hour (Checks 24) and it works > like that. > > You probably have to reload freshclam if you make changes to the > freshclam.conf file. So: > - are you sure you are editing the correct freshclam.conf file? > - did you reload freshclam after making changes to it?
I don't have any such file in systemd for running freshclam. I do have a file in /etc/cron.d which calls /usr/share/clamav/freshclam-sleep, this file does appear to have a random generator built in which might explain why the 3 hour intervals started at 05:00 rather than 03:00. Think I'll leave things as they are, it's working so I'm not going to touch it
