[ILUG] Cron? Crontab?

[Frank Murphy]

Installed F-Prot as av.

Need a crontab so it will auto update.

(What I need is it to update at 00:10am every day.)
man cron & crontab didn't do  much for me.

Tried running crontab -e
got a page with a load of _ down left margin,
time to ask some help I figured.

(then I'll try figure how to get it do auto scans, not exactly a batch file)

Frank

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Automatically updating the virus signature files

To automatically update the virus signature files you can use the 
check-updates.pl perl script in conjunction with cron. Cron is a command 
scheduler. To schedule check-updates.pl to run periodically, you must 
create something called a crontab. Please consult your system manual to 
find out how.

The most common command for creating a crontab is 'crontab -e'. Running it 
will start an editor. You must fill in the time and date fields appropriately.

The time and date fields are:

field allowed values
minute 0-59
hour 0-23
day of month 1-31
month 1-2 (or names, see below)
day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)

Example:
27 4,16 * * */usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron

With this configuration, you will get e-mails whenever signature files are 
updated or when an error occurs. If you only want to receive e-mail only 
when an error, occurs, then you want to include the -quiet parameter:

27 4,16 * * */usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron -quiet

Please make sure you run check-updates.pl as root, otherwise it will not 
have filesystem permissions to update the virus database. For further 
information about check-updates.pl, please consult the check-updates.pl 
manual page.