Hi, I've noticed that freshclam is running every 2 hours (guessing that it's updating?). I'd like to change this so it's less frequent / runs during the night, but I can't find where this runs as a cron. Could someone point me to where I can change how often this runs please? Cheers
Reduce the value for Checks in your freshclam.conf (should be Checks 12). Since freshclam uses DNS to check for available Updates there is no need to reduce the daily checks. I use "checks 48" on my servers.
Thanks! It was more to reduce the number of CPU usage spikes, which are being created by the freshclam checks.
Remember that freshclam runs only for a few seconds to check for available updates and fetches (normaly) only diffs from a mirror. I prefer security instead of slightly less load.
