Topic: virus definitions

[chris burnat]

How can one acquire virus definitions more often with amavis?  My system checks once per day, but in the present climate, doing it  every 3-4 hours would be great.
thanks.
chris

[Mick]

If you're using amavis-ng, then AFAIK it isn't actually amavis that needs updating, it is whatever virus-scanner that amavis is using that needs updating. Amavis-ng is a kind of "middleman" between your MTA and your virus scanner.

For example, I'm using amavis with clamav. The clamav virus definition gets updated every hour.

If you're interested, this was all set up using Jesper's script (search this site, can't remember the URL).

[chris burnat]

thanks Mick.  I am new at this game... I am using (i) H+BDEV and (ii) ClamAV. At the moment, I have set their respective update time using the modules supplied by Dungog at 06:00 @ 18:00 each day.  Do you know where I can find some configuration file(s) allowing me  to modify these presets, and make it every 3 hours for example?

Any help would be appreciated, we are being bombarded at the moment, and a few mails here and there appear to slip through.

[Mick]

I'm no expert either ... try 'man freshclam', there is some config info in there. Otherwise, there doesn't appear to be an actual config file anywhere.

[shanen]

I use the cron script from http://www.pagefault.org/howto/amavis_clam.shtml

Updated hourly...

[chris burnat]

Thanks.

[smeuser]

With the dungog rpm's installed, you should have the 'hourly' option already.

[chris burnat]

you are correct.  problem solved.