How to do automatic scan with avast for Linux (Ubuntu 7.04)?

[FreewheelinFrank]

I think they are symbolic links. Checking the properties should show you where the executable actually resides.

[DavidR]

Sorry I'm not a Linux user, curious though

There are also a number of other icons with this arrow. I just wonder if this is similar to windows icons where they also have an arrow and that indicates that this is just a shortcut to the real program. Right clicking in windows and selecting properties shows the path to the actual program,  I don't know if the same is true of Linux.

[blackdiamond]

Sorry I'm not a Linux user, curious though

There are also a number of other icons with this arrow. I just wonder if this is similar to windows icons where they also have an arrow and that indicates that this is just a shortcut to the real program. Right clicking in windows and selecting properties shows the path to the actual program,  I don't know if the same is true of Linux.

i really don't know..I'm really knew of ubuntu..But i think is the same..Now I'll take a look where the executables resides.. I'll give you more details.. bye and thank you very much!

[vendion]

Yes that is a symbolic link, otherwise known as a soft link.  They work the same as a shortcut file in Windows, so doing as FreewheelinFrank said and checking the properties will show you where the real avast is hiding.

[Dublin]

balckdiamond,
have you register avast as root user?

avast looks for ~/.avast/avastrc file, which is located in user's home directory.
If you try to run avast from the cron as root user, the program looks for /root/.avast/avastrc file. If there isn't the file, the program fails.

Please, try to run avastgui as root first and then reattempt automatic scanning from the cron daemon.

[vendion]

LOL you beat me to that I was going to suggest that he runs the GUI to see if that will fix his problem... :'(

[Dublin]

I opened the terminal window

first, I tried to run avast!:
  sudo -H avast /home

NOTE: the scanner started to work after filling the license key

then I altered the contab table:
  sudo crontab -e

and I inserted "30 18 * * * /usr/bin/avast /home > /tmp/scanresaults" line there

I restarted the cron daemon:
  sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart

avast! worked fine then when it was running from the cron

[vendion]

Its always the simple things that get over looked the most