On-Demand Updating Of The Anti-Virus Database - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.7 - FOR LINUX FILE SERVER Administrator's Manual

Using Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Task: configure the component to download updates to the anti-virus
database from a specified URL. If the download cannot be performed
from this URL, update the database from the URLs specified in the list
included in the keepup2date component.
Solution: to perform this task, do the following:
Assign the value Yes to the UseUpdateServerUrl setting of the [upda-
ter.options] section, and the value No to the UseUpdateServerUrlOnly
setting. Additionally, the UpdateServerUrl setting must contain the URL
of the updates server.
4.1.2. On-demand updating of the anti-virus
database
You can start the update of the anti-virus database from the command line at any
time. To do that, type the following command:
# /opt/kaspersky/kav4fs/bin/kav4fs-keepup2date
Task: start the update of the anti-virus database and record the results
in the file /tmp/updatesreport.log.
Solution: to implement this task enter at the command line:
# /opt/kaspersky/kav4fs/bin/kav4fs-keepup2date –l
/tmp/updatesreport.log
The most convenient way to update the anti-virus database on several
computers is to download the updates once from the updates servers, place the
updates in a network directory and then direct the computers to treat this
directory as their update source.
Task: arrange updating of the anti-virus database from the network di-
rectory /home/bases and only if this directory is not accessible or emp-
ty, update the database from Kaspersky Lab's updates servers. Print
the results in the report.txt report file.
Solution: to perform this task, do the following:
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