Scheduling Anti-Virus Database Updating Using Cron - KAPERSKY Anti-Virus 5.0 for Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD File Server Administrator's Manual

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another or at random), and attempts to download the anti-virus database. If the
update from the selected address fails, the program tries the next address and
makes another attempt to update the database.
You can adjust the update servers list. For example, you may want to move the
most frequently used server to the first position in the list, or delete those
addresses that you never use.
All the settings of the kavupdater component are grouped in the options
[updater.*] of the kav4unix.conf configuration file (see section A.2 on
page 58).
In the event that your LAN has a comparatively complicated structure, we
recommend that you download anti-virus database updates every day, store
them in some network directory, and set the local computers to download
database updates from this directory.
We strongly recommend that you update the anti-virus database every
day.
Database updating can be carried out using cron (see section 4.1.1 on page 23)
or from the command line (see section 4.1.2 on page 25).
4.1.1. Scheduling anti-virus database
updating using cron
You can schedule periodic automatic anti-virus database updating using the cron
program.
The object: set up automatic daily anti-virus database updating at
07.00. Set up random selection of the update server. Only program
errors should be registered in the system log. Keep a general log of all
task operations. Output no information to the console.
The solution: in order to accomplish the above objective, do the
following:
1. Make the following settings on the Kasperksy Anti-Virus
KeepUp2Date tab of the program (see Figure 2):
Keep silent – Do not display information regarding program
Random server order – Select a random update server from
operation.
the list.
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