Change freshclam cron

[olimortimer]

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

[florian030]

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.

[olimortimer]

Thanks!

It was more to reduce the number of CPU usage spikes, which are being created by the freshclam checks.

[florian030]

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.