RN214 Failing to Update Antivirus

AdriFrijters 

OK, good.

As I stated previously, I use Linux on my desktop PC so the initial SSH log on to the ReadyNAS will be slightly different for you. Can a Windows 10 user please advise of the correct procedure to SSH in please?

On a Linux Desktop:

Open the Terminal program on your desktop PC or laptop (I think that you will need to use Windows Command Prompt - (type cmd in Windows search??).

Type: sudo ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (the IP address of your ReadyNAS).

Enter the password for your desktop PC. ReadyNAS should reply with "root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx's password"

Enter the root (admin) password for your ReadyNAS. (Note that if you take too long at this stage you will be kicked out and have to start again).

Hopefully you should see something like this:

Welcome to ReadyNASOS 6.10.4

Last login: Tue Feb 16 10:56:15 2021 from (IP address of your desktop PC)
root@(your NAS's name):~#

From now on the commands should be the same regardless of desktop operating system.

If so, then type the command: crontab -e and enter.

You should get a response back the first line something like this "# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron."

Using the keyboards direction keys, (mouse will not work here), put the flashing cursor on top of the last letter in the very last line, (not the first new line at the bottom).

Type the letter o, (lower case O, not zero) and enter. This should move you to the next line. (I do not know why just moving the cursor to the next free line does not work, but it didn't for me).

Type: mm hh *** /usr/bin/freshclam and enter, (where mm is the number of minutes past the hour that you want the update to take place and hh is the hour of the day). If you want to select one of the first nine minutes of the hour then just use a single digit. As an example, I have set mine to run at 14:00 daily, so I entered:

0 14 * * * /usr/bin/freshclam  (note the spaces - they are important!).

Then type :wq (This will save your new entry and quit Crontab in one go).

You should now be back to "root@(your NAS's name):~#" and you can close the terminal window.

All being well, your ReadyNAS should now attempt to update its AntiVirus daily at the time that you have set. You will be able to see this in the logs, but wait a while after it should have run as the update process can take a few minutes!

Good Luck!