{"id":6544,"date":"2026-10-08T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=6544"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:25:43","slug":"how-to-check-if-a-scheduled-scan-has-completed-in-linux-security-64","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/how-to-check-if-a-scheduled-scan-has-completed-in-linux-security-64\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check if a scheduled scan has completed in Linux Security 64?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How to check if a scheduled scan has finished in Linux Security 64?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>A scan report will be created in Policy Manager Console &gt; Scan Report tab.\u00a0<br \/>There&#39;s no scan result report generated in Linux Security 64 side.<\/p>\n<p>Detections will be logged in \/var\/log\/messages.<\/p>\n<p>Scan log of schedule scanning is logged in access.log as well as real-time scanning and manual scanning.<\/p>\n<p>On a Linux workstation or server locally,\u00a0 Business Suite Linux Security 64 output to the system log the scan settings, when the scan has started and when the scan has ended. System log location depends on the Linux distro being used:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>\/var\/log\/syslog\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\/var\/log\/journal<\/li>\n<li>\/var\/log\/messages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The scheduled scan start and finish logs come from the scand process while the scan settings logs come from the lspmd process.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see an example of the timestamps of past scheduled scans that are listed in a system log.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>lspmd [1930]: report {source=scheduled scan] scan schedule changed; schedule={&quot;hour&quot;:15,&quot;minute&quot;:10,&quot;days&quot;:[&quot;friday&quot;]}<\/li>\n<li>scand [5243]: report [source=scheduled scan]: scan started<\/li>\n<li>scand[5243]: report [source=scheduled scan]: scan finished<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, on a Ubuntu Linux installation you can easily list the scan settings and the scan start and finish times by using the following terminal command:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>grep &quot;scheduled scan&quot; \/var\/log\/syslog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to check if schedule scan in Linux Security 64 is completed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-6544","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005168","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-08 11:25:43","import_hash":"01ad852c8edb22490182b6da3651f4f33a18f09f","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/6544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}