Re: [SLUG] anti virus tool

[John Clarke <johnc+slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:45:53 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> ><quote who="John Clarke">
> >
> >> Why not just run freshclam regularly via cron?  It first checks the md5
> >> sums of the two databse files, and only downloads updates if the md5 sum
> >> has changed.  Each md5 sum request is only around 300 bytes, so it won't
> >> blow out your bandwidth bill :-)
> >
> >300 bytes < notification email. The man speaks wisdom.
> 
> 300 bytes * cron runs between notification emails vs. size of
> notification email...

Here was I feeling honoured to receive praise from Jeff for the second
time in a week or so, and you have to spoil it by pointing out that he
got it wrong.  Thanks.


Cheers,

John
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