Linux Q - keeping clamav up to date on centos.

[Rob Clark]

I run a nix box which runs centos 5 as a antispam server mainly (+ a few others)
Clamav (and clamd) are installed correctly and currently happily filter out shed loads of incoming virii via postfix / amavisd / clamd.

Freshclam runs multiple times daily and keeps the defs upto date, but the main prog often needs updating.

I have been manually doing yum update clamav to update the main prog.

not 100% with nix system but would I be ok in doing that via cron ?
a daily cmd which runs a shell script or directly via crontab yum update clamd clamav and forcing Y ?

 

[Galzzly]

Shouldn't see why not, it'd get the job done. But make sure that it logs, and mails you with any errors.

 

[Rob Clark]

Logging i can do, how you get it to email (either way) ?

 

[Galzzly]

This might be something that you're after:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-crontab-change-mailto-settings/

 

[Rob Clark]

excellent stuff, thanks

 

[KDF]

What you are suggesting will work just fine.. but I wouldnt suggest it TBH.. you should really test any updated packages before you deploy them to a live server.