Unisar 1.24.1867 manual Edit the cron table

11	Using	Updates
	BitDefender

Edit the cron table

The first method is to edit the cron tables, using the crontab tool. For example, if you want to run a daily update, run the following as root:

#crontab -e

Then add the next line:

00 02 * * * /opt/BitDefender-scanner/bin/bdscan --update

All you have to do now is to signal the cron daemon to reload the crontables. Run the next command and look for the process-id of crond, located in the second column.

#ps aux grep crond

With the process-id (PID) in mind, issue the following command to signal the crond daemon. Replace PID with the corresponding process-id value.

#kill -HUP PID

This way, you will run the update every night at 2:00 AM.

Use cron.* scheduling facility

Depending on you Linux distribution, there could be another method for regular updates. Most of the major distributions use cron to run some scripts located in several directories, on a hourly, daily, weekly and monthly basis. Although not very accurate, this method provides a very simple way to add cron new job or to remove it.

First, you should look for several directories, such as /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly and /etc/cron.monthly. For this example you could use the cron.daily or even cron.hourly directories.

Create the following file, name it bdscan-updateand place it in the selected directory. Do not forget to change the INSTALL_PATH according to your installation, if you have not installed under default location.

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