Do I need to put the update_virus_scanners to cron??

[Julian Field]

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On 31 Aug 2005, at 13:15, Norbert Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the mailscanner book says, the update of the virus scanner  
> signatures is
> done hourly by the update_virus_scanners script.
> But not at my debian installation. I can start the  
> update_virus_scanners
> script manually and the update works and gets logged to syslog.
> But when I do:
> tail -f /var/log/mail.log |grep update.virus
>
> No more logging happens thus no more updateing seems to happen.
>
> Do I have to start the script from cron.hourly??

You need an hourly cron job to call update_virus_scanners. How you  
implement that is up to you, I'm surprised that the deb package  
doesn't include one, disappointing.

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