Hello Stefan,

What happens to firewalls that do not run 24/7?

Will this job be performed after 12 hours have passed no matter how long? So let’s say I shut down a system for a day, would the job run immediately?

-Michael

On 8 May 2022, at 14:23, Stefan Schantl stefan.schantl@ipfire.org wrote:

Signed-off-by: Stefan Schantl stefan.schantl@ipfire.org

config/cron/crontab | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config/cron/crontab b/config/cron/crontab index d61d26619..c42104626 100644 --- a/config/cron/crontab +++ b/config/cron/crontab @@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ HOME=/ # Update location database %hourly,random * [ -f "/var/ipfire/red/active" ] && /usr/local/bin/update-location-database >/dev/null 2>&1

-# Update surciata rules. -%daily,random * [ -f "/var/ipfire/red/active" ] && /usr/local/bin/update-ids-ruleset >/dev/null 2>&1 +# Perform a surciata rules update every 12 hours. +@ 12h [ -f "/var/ipfire/red/active" ] && /usr/local/bin/update-ids-ruleset >/dev/null 2>&1

# Retry sending spooled mails regularly %hourly * /usr/sbin/dma -q -- 2.30.2