RES: McAfee Auto Update

[Tony Finch]

Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>
>The update_virus_scanners script bins all the output as not many people
>want a mail message from cron every hour of every day. It's a fairly simple
>script, so you can always edit it and remove the redirection to /dev/null
>if you like.

The alternate mcafee autoupdate script is silent when it finds out that
no dat file update is needed, otherwise it produces informative output
(or an error message). So if you run it from cron you'll only be emailed
when something interesting happens.

Tony.
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