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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:56 pm    
Subject: quick question on freshclam		 Reply with quote  
Tom Shaw
I want to change how I run freshclam on OSX from running as a deamon
to running periodically using launchd. Unfortunately, freshclam's
returning of 1 when no updates were required causes issues with
launchd since it thinks freshclam exited abnormally and attempts to
respawn.

Now, I can easily put a shell script between launchd and freshclam to
solve this (in fact I have) but it would be much cleaner if I could
tell freshclam to return 0 for both "good" events, eg updated and no
need to update."

Anyone got an idea on how to do this?

Tom

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:32 pm    
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Chuck Swiger
On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Tom Shaw wrote:
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I want to change how I run freshclam on OSX from running as a deamon to running periodically using launchd. Unfortunately, freshclam's returning of 1 when no updates were required causes issues with launchd since it thinks freshclam exited abnormally and attempts to respawn.

It looks like --on-update-execute=EXIT_0 is almost what you want, except it's reversed; you want an --on-no-update-execute flag. :-)

On the other hand, freshclam normally uses less than 1MB of RAM, so I don't see what you are gaining by making changes here. Use freshclam as a daemon, and have launchd monitor it and restart it if it ever goes away.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:51 pm    
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Jim Preston
On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:32 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

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On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Tom Shaw wrote:
Quote:
I want to change how I run freshclam on OSX from running as a
deamon to running periodically using launchd. Unfortunately,
freshclam's returning of 1 when no updates were required causes
issues with launchd since it thinks freshclam exited abnormally and
attempts to respawn.

It looks like --on-update-execute=EXIT_0 is almost what you want,
except it's reversed; you want an --on-no-update-execute flag. :-)

On the other hand, freshclam normally uses less than 1MB of RAM, so
I don't see what you are gaining by making changes here. Use
freshclam as a daemon, and have launchd monitor it and restart it if
it ever goes away.

Regards,
--
-Chuck


Or you could just run it has a cron task. This is what I do on my
Linux box and have it execute x number of times a day at some offset
from the hour to minimize collision with other users (tends to timeout
if done on the top of the hour)

Jim
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