On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:16:48PM -0500, Jeff Smelser said: > On Monday 06 September 2004 01:25 pm, Thomas Lamy wrote: > > It's a matter of taste. I prefer running it in daemon mode, as freshclam > > is rock solid (eg. it hasn't crashed here for months), and due to it's > > random start time does not tend to overload the mirrors. > > You have to use bashisms or perl (or some really crude sh pipe) to make > > sure freshclam's cron job does not start exactly on the hour. > > Why wouldnt you use this minute section?
So that you get a random minute, rather than the same minute after the hour every time. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | A national debt, if it is not | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | excessive, will be to us a national | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | blessing. -- Alexander Hamilton | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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