Every 10 minutes is much to often. There was a thread about this issue just a while ago. The consensus was 1 to 4 hours and not exactly on the hour. If everybody ran freshclam every 10 minutes, the server would croak.

Phil

On Aug 19, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Steven Stern wrote:

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:15:51 +0530, Rajanikanth P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:


Hello All,

I want to write a script/program which checks for clam virus updates
every 10 minutes and updates the respective files. Can anybody provide
me some information on sites that host clam av definitions and also
tell me which is the most efficient and reliable site Thanks in
advance.


sudo crontab -e

add at the end

*/10 * * * * /path/to/freshclam --quiet
--
   Steve



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