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It can work in two modes: <UL> <LI>interactive - from command line, verbosely </LI> <LI>daemon - alone, silently </LI> </UL> When started by a superuser it drops privileges and switches to the <I>clamav</I> user. <code>freshclam</code> uses the <TT><A NAME="tex2html30" HREF="database.clamav.net">database.clamav.net</A></TT> round-robin DNS which automatically selects a database mirror<A HREF="node105.html#mirrors">9.1</A>. <code>freshclam</code> is an advanced tool: it supports database version verification through DNS, proxy servers (with authentication), digital signatures and various error scenarios. <B>Quick test: run freshclam (as superuser) with no parameters and check the output.</B> If everything is OK you may create the log file in /var/log (owned by <I>clamav</I> or another user <code>freshclam</code> will be running as (<code>--user</code>): <PRE> # touch /var/log/clam-update.log # chmod 600 /var/log/clam-update.log # chown clamav /var/log/clam-update.log </PRE> Now you <I>should</I> edit the configuration file (<code>freshclam.conf</code> or <code>clamd.conf</code> if they're merged) and configure the <I>UpdateLogFile</I> directive to point to the created log file. Finally, to run <code>freshclam</code> in the daemon mode, execute: <PRE> # freshclam -d </PRE> The other method is to use the <I>cron</I> daemon. You have to add the following line to the crontab of the <B>root</B> or <B>clamav</B> users: <FONT SIZE="-1"> </FONT><PRE> N * * * * /usr/local/bin/freshclam --quiet </PRE> to check for a new database every hour. <B>N should be a number between 3 and 57 of your choice. Please don't choose any multiple of 10, because there are already too many clients using those time slots.</B> Proxy settings are only configurable via the configuration file and <code>freshclam</code> will require strict permissions on the config file when <code>HTTPProxyPassword</code> is enabled. <PRE> HTTPProxyServer myproxyserver.com HTTPProxyPort 1234 HTTPProxyUsername myusername HTTPProxyPassword mypass </PRE> <P> <HR> <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html695" HREF="node22.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="/usr/share/latex2html/icons/next.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html691" HREF="node16.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="/usr/share/latex2html/icons/up.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html685" HREF="node20.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="/usr/share/latex2html/icons/prev.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html693" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="/usr/share/latex2html/icons/contents.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html696" HREF="node22.html">Closest mirrors</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html692" HREF="node16.html">Configuration</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html686" HREF="node20.html">Testing</A>   <B> <A NAME="tex2html694" HREF="node1.html">Contents</A></B> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> Tomasz Kojm 2004-10-17 </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>