Starting and stopping a task

A user can start or stop the following types of tasks:

• Real-time protection task
• Database update task

To run a task, execute the following command:

lightagent start <task type>

where <task type> is the type of task that you want to run.

If you do not specify the task type, the application will display a list of all tasks for which you can run this command. Possible values:

• File_Monitoring. Real-time protection task.
• Updater. Database update task.

You can also use the start a database update task with additional settings command to run the update task.

To stop a task, execute the following command:

lightagent stop <task type>

where <task type> is the type of task that you want to stop.

If you do not specify the task type, the application will display a list of all tasks for which you can run this command. Possible values:

• File_Monitoring. Real-time protection task.
• Updater. Database update task.