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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