[plug] newbie - output from antivirus program

[Mark O'Shea]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 06:59, Jay Warwick wrote:
> Yesterday I downloaded f-prot antivirus so I would have some measure of
> security on my system.  I also setup cron jobs to -
> 1. Check for daily updates and
> 2. Weekly scan of system
> 
> But as I am setting these jobs to be done at 4am, how do I check they
> are actually being done?  I figure I need to create a text file where it
> will output the information for me to look at later.  Do I do this as
> part of the cron job or do I set it up somewhere else?
> 
Well, you'd probably be better off using the logging and emailing output
facilities of cron to check this.  The logs will tell you what ran and
when, and the email will have the output of the job (std out and st err
if they haven't been redirected elsewhere).

See:
man 8 cron
for details.

Regards,
-- 
Mark