Op Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:21:16 +1200 schreef Rosemary McGillicuddy:
>> If you need help with this, just show us what you got so far.
>>
>> Paul
>For some reason every time I try to copy and paste from konsole I get a
>clamav url, so makes things longwinded!
>
>I tried 'check-updates.pl' after 'cd'ing to file and doing su. Got
>'command not found'. These instructions from
>www.f-prot.com/support/unix/unix_manpages/check-updates.pl
>
>Probably something basic I am doing or not doing ...
Okay, for the updater the info on the web is rather straightforward:
"To run this script as a cron-job, it is necessary to create a crontab
entry similar to the following example. Here is an example of a crontab
entry which runs the check-updates.pl script twice a day: 04:27 and
16:27:"
27 4,16 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron
First make sure that you know where 'check-updates.pl' is installed. Is
that in /usr/local/f-prot/tools? If not, remember the directory where it
is.
su to become root.
Then type "crontab -e" (without the quotes)
You'll probably be prompted with the vi-editor.
Type 'i' to go to insert mode
Then type
27 4,16 * * * /<directory_where_it_is>/check-updates.pl -cron
where <directory_where_it_is> of course is the path to the directory
where check-updates.pl is located on your system.
The 27 means 27 minutes past, the 4,16 means 4 o'clock and 16 o'clock
(4pm). That means the script will check twice a day for updates, at
4:27am and 4:27pm. You can change that to your liking, any minute lower
than 60 will do, and you can also just let it check once a day.
The * * * means every day.
When you set this up, press ESCape and type:
:wq
in vi. That saves the cron-file and from that moment on the check runs
at the time you set it up.
A similar thing goes for f-prot. It is probably located in the same
directory (if not, look where f-prot is and remember that/write it
down).
First now, you decide how you want to be told by f-prot what it did.
The default way of reporting from f-prot is to dump its text to the
screen. When it runs from cron, you won't see that.
You can tell it to write to a report file:
f-prot -report=$HOME/Rosemary/temp/f-protreport.txt would write a report
in$HOME/Rosemary/temp/f-protreport.txt (make sure that
$HOME/Rosemary/temp/ exists, of course).
This would however overwrite the old report. So you can do
f-prot -report=$HOME/Rosemary/temp/f-protreport.txt -append
More options are visible at
http://www.f-prot.com/support/unix/unix_manpages/f-prot.1.html, but the
default is a good start for now, I think.
To add that to cron, you can do this in the same manner (at the same
time) that you update cron for the update.pl script.
su to root
crontab -e
i for insert mode
Then tell cron when it should check. Once a day? Every hour? This is up
to you.
Once a day, at 8:15 am would look like this:
15 8 * * * /path_to_program/f-prot
-report=$HOME/Rosemary/temp/f-protreport.txt -append -silent
Twice a day at 8:15am and 8:15 pm is
15 8,20 * * * /path_to_program/f-prot
-report=$HOME/Rosemary/temp/f-protreport.txt -append -silent
Every hour at 20 minutes past the hour is
20 * * * * /path_to_program/f-prot
-report=$HOME/Rosemary/temp/f-protreport.txt -append -silent
The -silent option is recommended on the f-prot page when running from
cron.
Then ESCape again, and :wq to end vi and start the new cron jobs.
I'd advise you to first try out the commands (without the 20 * * * stuff
of course) from the CLI (command line interface) to make sure they work.
Otherwise you get nothing from cron and you don't know why.
Good practice also, in your cron setup, is to write something like this
at the top:
SHELL=/bin/sh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Use an e-mail address that you can use on your machine.) That will make
cron send you an e-mail when something happened through cron. Very
useful when something goes wrong.
Good luck and let's hear what works and what doesn't.
Paul
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