Chris wrote:
> I've just installed ClamAV last night and after reading through the archives
> I
> setup a cronjob to restart freshclam on boot. I got a chance to test this
> today since my box decided that it wasn't going to play anymore, after the
> reboot I noticed two freshclam processes running, one with no variables and
> the other as I had set it up in the cronjob with -d -c 24. I take it then
> that the cronjob is not necessary to restart freshclam and that all variables
> are read from the /etc/freshclam.conf file. Is that a correct assumption?
You have it all wrong, the -d parameter means (man freshclam):
-d, --daemon
Run in a daemon mode. This option requires --checks.
So you either run freshclam once with -d or run it from cron without -d.
And your statement about "setup a cronjob to restart freshclam on boot" is
wrong, if you want something to start on boot you set that on the /etc/init.d
directory and related /etc/rc?.d (or equivalent since this changes from Unix to
Unix), you don't use cron for that.
If you don't know what you are doing then start by reading the documentation.
HTH
--
René Berber
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