freshclam cron not work

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Hello,

I added cron for freshclam:

[root@server ~]# crontab -e
30 07 * * * freshclam

After that I recieve email from server every day:

/bin/sh: freshclam: command not found


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When I try it via command prompt:

[root@server ~]# freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Fri Jul 12 10:56:49 2019
main.cvd is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr)
daily.cld is up to date (version: 25507, sigs: 1652419, f-level: 63, builder: raynman)
bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 328, sigs: 94, f-level: 63, builder: neo)

Thanks.
 
Hello,

Specify a full path the freshclam. It should be something like /usr/local/bin/freshclam
And by the way whenever it's running as a daemon, you don't need to setup a crontask:

Code:
[root@server ~]# ps aux | grep freshclam
root     10697  0.0  0.0 112708   984 pts/0    S+   10:16   0:00 grep --color=auto freshclam
[B]clamav   16400  0.0  0.0  74824  2576 ?        Ss   Jul10   0:05 /usr/local/bin/freshclam -d
[/B][root@server ~]#
 
Hello,

[root@server ~]# ps aux | grep freshclam
clamav 4048 0.0 0.0 72744 944 ? Ss Jul10 0:04 /usr/local/bin/freshclam -d
root 9905 0.0 0.0 112708 948 pts/0 R+ 11:27 0:00 grep --color=auto freshclam

I will delete cron task for freshclam.

Thanks
 
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