[osamu.morozumi]

Hi,
I'm trying to create a cron job for clamav to do a scan of the home directory once a week. I made this script in /etc/cron.weekly/ :

Code:

#!/bin/sh clamscan -r /home/osamu/ | grep FOUND >> /home/osamu/virus-scan-reports/virus-scan-report.txt

following instructions from https://askubuntu.com/questions/749129/h...daily-scan.  I looked in crontab but can't see any evidence of a new job there:

Code:

# m h dom mon dow user command 17 * * * * root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ) 52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly ) #

Am I missing a step?  Is there a better way to achieve automatic weekly scans?

**edit:
I deleted the script in /etc/cron.weekly and instead added this cronjob to /etc/crontab

Code:

0 18 * * SUN root rm -rf /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log 1 18 * * SUN root freshclam 2 18 * * SUN root clamscan -r -i / | grep FOUND >> /home/osamu/virus-scan-reports/virus-scan-report.txt

This should update the malware database and scan  the entire system every sunday at 6pm and write it to a text file I hope.  Have I done this correctly and is there a way to dynamically append the current date to the name of the virus-scan text file?

[valtam]

Try:

Code:

0 18 * * SUN clamscan -r -i / | grep FOUND >> /home/osamu/virus-scan-reports/virus-scan-report.txt; mv /home/osamu/virus-scan-reports/virus-scan-report.txt /home/osamu/virus-scan-reports/virus-scan-report-`date +"%d-%m-%Y"`.txt

or whatever date variables you want to include.

[osamu.morozumi]

Thanks again Jerry. Now just have to wait until 6pm to see if the job works!

[osamu.morozumi]

It took a bit of tweaking but it now works.  Here is the final script:

Code:

0 18 * * SUN root rm -rf /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log 1 18 * * SUN root freshclam 22 18 * * SUN root clamscan -r -i / | grep FOUND >> /home/osamu/virus-scan-reports/virus-scan-report-`date +"\%d-\%m-\%Y"`.txt

'%' symbols need to be escaped or they're interpreted as new lines.

[valtam]

Nice

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