On Fri, April 15, 2005 11:47, Rosemary McGillicuddy said: > >> 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. > > Did this. First time with the update it said something " > There's a new version of"Document/Office/Macro viruses > signatures on the web, starting download, starting download", nothing > appeared to happen so after half an hour I stopped it. When I tried it > again, it said "nothing to be done". So must have worked the first > time.
Interesting... I don't use this myself, though, so I cannot replay this. But as you run it by hand, you can keep an eye on this. > When I did the scan command I looked for a file in /home/rosemary/tmp > where I set it, but nothing there. After looking at the webpage again > realised it only outputs if it finds a virus. I did using the -list > command and it gave me some info about drives and no viruses. So all > good. Haven't yet set it up in crontab though. Bit scared ... Cron is not scary, really. >> SHELL=/bin/sh >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > I have this: > > MAILTO=root > HOME=/ > > Do I change the MAILTO, or add your suggestion? No need to change anything, unless you don't know how to read e-mail that is sent to root. Paul
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