cron jobs & application removal

[Net Llama!]

On 12/03/03 19:46, Bob Hemus wrote:

> Time to display my ignorance, again.  I looked in man pagesm and HOW-TOs 
> couldn't find anything.  I've installed f-prot and SpamAssassin.  
> Haven't screwed up the courage to configure Spam A.., but th f-prot 
> sends up-dates and tells me to run them using a cron job.  Here are the 
> 'structions:
> 
> UNIX users:
> Use the check-updates.pl script (e.g, as a cron job) to
> update the virus signature files through the Internet.
> 
> Would some one show me how or point me in the right direction.  Maybe 
> you can teach old dogs new tricks? Thank you in advance.

Sounds like all you need to do is add a crontab entry for root (or 
whoever would update the virus signature file) like this:
0	1	*	*	*	check-updates.pl


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