was blank, now Clam autoupdate

[Kevin Spicer]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 21:36, Antony Stone wrote:

>I don't run freshclam in daemon mode, but I don't really see why
>calling it
>from MailScanner's update_virus_scanners would be any more reliable
>than
>calling it on its own.

Except that it is less likely the cron daemon will die, thus preventing
an update, than the freshclam daemon.  Personally I fell its ill-advised
writing a daemon just to periodically perform a task, thats what cron is
for.
The MailScanner script also prevents mails from being scanned while the
scanner is being updated, which may improve the reliability of
scanning.  The downside of this is that an update that stalls may stall
MailScanner too [but at least you're likely to notice that].  There was
some discussion about adding timeouts to the script to prevent this (not
sure if it actually happened though).




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