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    Arpwatch - update-ethercodes cronjob necessary?

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    • luckman212L
      luckman212 LAYER 8
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      I just starting playing around with the Arpwatch package.

      During the install, the following message is displayed:

      >>> Installing pfSense-pkg-arpwatch... 
      [...blah blah...]
      
      Message from arpwatch-3.2:
      --
      You can create an ethercodes.dat file by running this script:
      
          /usr/local/arpwatch/update-ethercodes
      
      Here's a example crontab entry to update it every night:
      
          00 0 * * * root sleep `jot -r 1 0 600` ; /usr/local/arpwatch/update-ethercodes
      
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      I checked my Cron after installing and I don't have that job listed. So my question is, do I need to manually add it? Or is this somehow handled a different way? (or is it just totally unnecessary...)

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