> On Mar 10, 2021, at 3:58 PM, Arjen de Korte via clamav-users > <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > > Citeren Paul Smith via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>: > >> That's certainly how it seems to behave here. If the DNS record hasn't >> changed, then it just says "everything's fine" and does nothing else. So, if >> you ran Freshclam every minute, it wouldn't download anything except lots of >> DNS queries (which would be cached more locally). > > It reads the TXT record for 'current.cvd.clamav.net' which has a TTL of 1800 > seconds. Running freshclam more frequent than once every thirty minutes is > therefor in most cases just wasting CPU cycles, as the previous answer will > be used then. Even if the answer isn't cached locally, chances are it will be > cached somewhere upstream.
Right. Run it once an hour and you’re good. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
