Cron job for Automatic Feed updates in Openvas

To get updated content from the feeds you need to run the following scripts (in this order) on a daily base

# crontab -e

0 1 * * * /usr/sbin/greenbone-nvt-sync > /dev/null
0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/greenbone-scapdata-sync > /dev/null
0 3 * * * /usr/sbin/greenbone-certdata-sync > /dev/null

If there is any issue during the sync the scripts should give you additional info.

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