update_virus_scanners doesn't notify

Kevin Spicer kevins at BMRB.CO.UK
Sat Jun 7 09:43:36 IST 2003


>On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 06:04, Tan Lian Leong wrote:
>Seems like the "update_virus_scanners" cron job doesn't send
>notification when update virus engine failed, does it? Thanks.

No, it logs to syslog - if you want an email to root when things go
wrong find the following line in update_virus_scanners

      ${UPDATER} >/dev/null 2>&1

and change it to...

      ${UPDATER} # >/dev/null 2>&1






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