Scheduling Anti-Virus Database Updating Using Cron - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR LINUX FREEBSD-OPENBSD MAIL SERVER Administrator's Manual

Working with Kaspersky Anti-Virus
ftp://downloads1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates/
The addresses that can be used to download updates are listed in the file
servers.lst included in the distribution package. This file has a simple format:
each update server is written on a new line that ends with the line feed symbol.
Update servers may be either http://, or ftp://, or a full Unix path (in this case the
database is updated from the directory).
Anti-virus database updating is carried out by the kavupdater component. During
the updating, the component refers to this list, selects an address (one after
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 kav4mailservers.conf configuration file (see section
A.2 on page 106).
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 and set the kavupdater component to restart the aveserver
component automatically as soon as the database is updated.
Database updating can be carried out using cron (see section 5.1.1 on page 46)
or from the command line (see section 5.1.2 on page 48).
5.1.1. 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. Turn on the
aveserver process automatic restart mode after the database update.
Only program errors should be registered in the system log. Keep a
general log of all the runs of the task. Output no information to the
console.
and other servers.
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