Hi,

Is there anyway to schedule regular full scans for both of these applications using cron? Could somebody explain this process very simply to me please...if thats possible!?

Also must these programs always be run as the root user? At the moment I am logging in as root and running them manually everytime, I'm looking for an automated solution if possible, where both programs have the required access without opening any holes unwittingly.

I have made efforts to find a simple explanation to no avail, I apologise if this has already been covered somewhere.

Many thanks,

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you can use cron to run programs periodically...

you can even have the results of the scans automatically emailed to you if you want...

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basically, what you can do is:

- become root

- backup your current crontab:

cp /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root /root/crontab.backup

- create a new crontab with links to the scripts you wanna run, basing yourself on the original crontab, so as to keep those entries:

cp /root/crontab.backup /root/crontab.new

vi /root/crontab.new

- once you've finished editing the file, make it the current crontab:

crontab /root/crontab.new

now the new crontab will be picked-up on the next cycle (every minute)...

if you mess-up, just restore the backup:

crontab /root/crontab.backup


make sure you read about how cron works and stuff before you do this...

good luck...

To do it with cron, type "crontab -e". Then edit or add a few lines.

<minute> <hour> <day of month> <month> <day of week> <command to run at schedule time or date>

minute = 0-59
hour = 0-23
day of month = 1-31
month = 1-12
day of week = 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sunday)

Put an * for each of unused five columns.

Type info "crontab(5)" for more information.

You can test the programs as a normal user but they probably display a lot of errors trying to read a file.

Thanks for your help its working perfectly...I've been trying to get everything working for me since SuSE 5.2 ....now fedora core 2 has come along and everything is going very well...for now !