devil-linux-develop

[Devil-linux-develop] freshclam bug???

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

I just noticed that freshclam has it's update turned on by default in
/etc/crontab.  

I don't think this should be turned on by default since:
1)  Many people use DL for a firewall, and it just wastes bandwidth.
2)  It logs messages in /var/log, and logrotate is NOT on by default
    which is a memory leak, eventually filling up a firewall's memory
    with log messages.

I realize this only effects people who start cron upon boot, but I still
would leave all crontabs turned off by default.

 - BS

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] freshclam bug???

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

> I just noticed that freshclam has it's update turned on by default in
> /etc/crontab.
>
> I don't think this should be turned on by default since:
> 1)  Many people use DL for a firewall, and it just wastes bandwidth.
> 2)  It logs messages in /var/log, and logrotate is NOT on by default
>     which is a memory leak, eventually filling up a firewall's memory
>     with log messages.
>
> I realize this only effects people who start cron upon boot, but I still
> would leave all crontabs turned off by default.

Agreed !
Can you comment the entries out for 1.0 and 1.1 ?
I don't know when I get a chance to do it.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] freshclam bug???

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > I just noticed that freshclam has it's update turned on by default in
> > /etc/crontab.
> > ...
> > I realize this only effects people who start cron upon boot, but I still
> > would leave all crontabs turned off by default.
> 
> Agreed !
> Can you comment the entries out for 1.0 and 1.1 ?
> I don't know when I get a chance to do it.

Done.

 - BS