[clamav-users] Freshclam Question

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 01 July 2015 04:22:29 Al Varnell wrote:
> The default in the source code is 12 times a day.
>
> > # Number of database checks per day.
> > # Default: 12 (every two hours)
> > #Checks 24
>
> The Troubleshooting FAQ 
<https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq/blob/master/faq/faq-troubleshoot.md> 
still says:
> > 	• How many times per hour shall I run freshclam?
> > If you are running ClamAV 0.8x or later, you can check for database
> > update as often as 4 times per hour provided that you have the
> > following options in freshclam.conf:
> > DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net
> > DatabaseMirror db.XY.clamav.net

The above is from a several year old install as db.local.clamav.net
changed to db.us.clamav.net now.

> > DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net
> > Replace XY with your "country code":iana. If you don't have that
> > option, then you must stick with 1 check per hour.
>
> -Al-

And since htop runs as root here, I just sent freshclam a SIGHUP, which 
should make it reread the /etc/freshclam.conf file. A tail on the log 
does not show them however, so it must be sleeping pretty soundly. I'll 
see what hapopens when it next wakes up a few seconds after 6am local.

> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 01:09 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > On 30.06.15 09:26, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> While personally investigating it here, I came to
> >> /etc/freshclam.conf, and discovered it was checking hourly. IMO
> >> that is really severe abuse of a free service, so I reset it to 12x
> >> daily and may even set it down to 2x a day.
> >
> > the default seems to be 48 daily checks, so I wouldn't consider 24
> > checks a day to be abuse... imho it's better to have fresh database.
>
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Thanks Al.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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