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.
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