[clamav-users] freshclam frequency ?

Andrew C Aitchison clamav at aitchison.me.uk
Wed Sep 2 10:45:46 UTC 2020


The sample freshclam.conf clamav-0.103.0-rc2/etc/freshclam.conf.sample has 
the
lines:
         # Number of database checks per day.
         # Default: 12 (every two hours)
         #Checks 24

but 
https://blog.clamav.net/2020/07/freshclam-cdiffs-effect-on-bandwidth.html
requests:
         To mitigate, please complete the following tasks:

         1. Use Freshclam instead of Python or whatever downloading script
                  you have cron'd.
         2. Reduce the checks to once or twice a day.

Would it make sense to make these agree ?

-- 
Andrew C. Aitchison                                     Kendal, UK
                         andrew at aitchison.me.uk



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