Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Niek wrote: > > On 9/7/2004 9:28 AM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > > > >Which would give the following behaviour how? > > > > > >| ClamAV update process started at Tue Sep 7 07:08:22 2004 > > >| ClamAV update process started at Tue Sep 7 08:01:43 2004 > > >| ClamAV update process started at Tue Sep 7 08:55:03 2004 > > > > > > > something like the following in freshclam.conf: > > Checks 25 or 26 > > As you can see, I'm fully aware of that. "How do you do that with > crontab" was the question longing for an answer. > > Ralph
There was a crontab entry posted a while since, which made use of $[RANDOM] to alter the update time. Relevant section from the original email: > As per discussions on this list on awhile ago; I use the following for > my crontab entry: > > 0 * * * * sleep $[ $RANDOM % 1800 ] ; /usr/local/bin/freshclam --quiet > > this causes it to sleep for a random period of time not exceeding > 30 min before executing. > > Rob Matt ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users