RE: [cobalt-users] mailscanner CRON JOBS! For startes.

["Jolley, Carl" <Carl.Jolley@xxxxxxx>]

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Sent: 9/4/02 5:40 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] mailscanner CRON JOBS! For startes.



Hello, 

Updating virus scanner definitions/patterns
If you look in the directory for your virus scanner (either in the tar
file or else in /usr/local) you may well find an "autoupdate" script. If
you set up a cron job to run this regularly (once or twice per day) then
your virus definitions will be updated for you automatically


What is the easiest way to run this job ( I am not good at running
scripts or cron jobs manually) This is good area to learn for me. So how
do I run this Autoupdate scripts daily.
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The easiest way to run this job automatically at a specified
time (or times) each day is to create or add an entry to
a crontab file so that cron will do it at the time(s) you
specify. Look at the documentation for cron and crontab (both
section 1 and section 5 of the man files). You can either
create or edit a crontab file for a "normal" user or you can modify the
/ect/crontab file that is run by cron for the root user.
Which you choose will be decides by whether the script need
to run as a specific user or whether it needs to run as root.