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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Virus and Malware Post 302495583 by methyl on Thursday 10th of February 2011 04:23:35 PM

02-10-2011

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General answer.

Virus and Malware code can affect both unix and Linux systems. Mail and file storage systems can also relay bad code without protection. It is nowadays normal to install a robust Firewall and Malware/Virus protection on servers in addition to protecting each and every client against Malware/Viruses.

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update-profile-cache

UPDATE-PROFILE-CACHE(1) 				      General Commands Manual					   UPDATE-PROFILE-CACHE(1)

NAME

       update-profile-cache - (re)generate profile assignment cache

SYNOPSIS

       update-profile-cache

DESCRIPTION

       Running	this  script  (re)generates the cache of profile assignments used by desktop-profiles. By default this script is run automatically
       once a day by a cron script.

       NOTE:  No cache of assignments will be generated in cases where cache use isn't supported by desktop-profiles (at the moment  caching  pro-
	      file  assingments  is  only  supported in the simple case when no group or command requirements are used for activation of profiles,
	      i.e. when we have a static machine-wide profile assignment).

FILES

       /etc/desktop-profiles/*.listing - Files containing the metadata about installed profiles

       /etc/default/desktop-profiles - File containing default settings for this script

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Bart Cornelis <cobaco@skolelinux.no>.

SEE ALSO

       desktop-profiles(7), profiles-manager(1), list-desktop-profiles(1)

desktop-profiles						 December 13, 2006					   UPDATE-PROFILE-CACHE(1)