McAfee Auto Update

[Denis Beauchemin]

Wouldn't it be risky to not update as soon as an updated DAT file is
released?

Maybe I'm paranoid but before your cron.hourly script I used to call my
own autoupdate script every 30 minutes!

Denis

Le lun 30/06/2003 à 15:31, Julian Field a écrit :
> Wouldn't it just be easier to move update_virus_scanners from the
> cron.hourly directory to the cron.daily directory?
> 
> At 20:24 30/06/2003, you wrote:
> >Hello Julian,
> >
> >I have MailScanner installed on may Linux working with McAfee only.
> >
> >To avoid auto-update to run every hour, i've disable the script
> >update_virus_scanners on my cron.hourly and create a call to
> >mcafee-autoupdate script on may crontab file to run every day at 01:00am.
> >I've been checked every day and there seems to be no problem on the
> >mcafee-autoupdate script.
> >I just want to confirm if you see any problem with that configuration.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >Rodrigo Scarano
> >Target Sistemas
> >http://www.targetsis.com.br/
> >rscarano at targetsis.com.br
> 
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