[clamav-users] what initiates freshclam?

Kris Deugau kdeugau at vianet.ca
Thu Jan 6 16:48:38 UTC 2022


novpenguincne via clamav-users wrote:
> OEL = Oracle Enterprise Linux
> 
> Under /usr/lib/systemd/system, there are the four clam*.service files.  But since none of them are active or enabled, I don't think can be the source.  I scanned the entire file system for cl*.service and they are the only ones I can find.

The grep command will search the contents of the files;  I suggested it 
since you haven't found a match by filename.

> It's not a big issue.  It's working.  I was just curious for my own knowledge.

Well, now you've got some of *us* curious, because like I said, this is 
a very strange way to call freshclam.  I really can't think of a good 
reason to wrap it up this way for most systems.

-kgd


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