[clamav-users] what initiates freshclam?

[novpenguincne]

That's it! Under /etc/crond.d, there is a clamav-update cron that runs freshclam-sleep every 3 hours. So this overrides the frequency setting in the freshclam.conf file.

Mystery solved. I checked for cron jobs but I only looked in /var/spool/cron and didn't think to check in /etc/crond.d.

Thank you!

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> The default Clam packages install /etc/cron.d/clamav-update from the clamav-update RPM. But you can disable that and use the systemd timer services, instead.
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