On 2009-04-29 13:54, Velda Midanovic wrote: > I am having a problem with ClamAV. > > It is working great in combination with MailScanner, so no problem there. > > It is on RH4U5 server. > > BUT > > It is filling up /usr/local/share/clamav folder with subfolders like this : > > drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Apr 13 20:14 > clamav-ff1b8054ca4da18830a21a1d1926faea > > drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Apr 13 02:33 > clamav-ff308f1b0172692d11d8fcfc10acfbff > > drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Apr 4 06:18 > clamav-ff6e299d847b7d8c0431e2171761f588 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Apr 23 07:01 > clamav-ff97ffcfe89c09096003ac3934f2418a > > drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Mar 6 02:54 > clamav-fffa3aecbc960a3e99a66058a18e6c3d > > > > Also in the same folder are files : > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 974848 Feb 26 14:42 daily.cld > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 44391424 Feb 18 12:22 main.cld > > -rw------- 1 clamav clamav 104 Apr 29 10:55 mirrors.dat >
You should keep these, although removing them causes no harm, freshclam will just need to download the entire database next time it is run (it cna take a while if you're on a slow connection). > > > In each of the subfolders is something like this : > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 17992 Feb 5 23:27 COPYING > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 214 Feb 5 23:27 daily.cfg > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 25954 Feb 5 23:27 daily.db > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 5554 Feb 5 23:27 daily.fp > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 5904 Feb 5 23:27 daily.ftm > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 14296 Feb 5 23:27 daily.hdb > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 1098 Feb 5 23:27 daily.hdu > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 762 Feb 5 23:27 daily.ign > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 713 Feb 5 23:27 daily.info > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 320 Feb 5 23:27 daily.ldb > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 4188187 Feb 5 23:27 daily.mdb > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 26056 Feb 5 23:27 daily.mdu > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 272178 Feb 5 23:27 daily.ndb > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 5179 Feb 5 23:27 daily.ndu > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 3372 Feb 5 23:27 daily.pdb > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 2088 Feb 5 23:27 daily.wdb > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 3450 Feb 5 23:27 daily.zmd > Those look like temporary files left behind by freshclam? Are you using latest ClamAV? (0.95.1) If not try upgrading, it should fix the problem. > > > The problem is that my /usr partition is 90% full, and this folder is taking > up 4,8Gb of space. > > So my question is : can I delete some of it (there are over 1000 > subfolders), or should I move it to another place? Does ClamAV need this to > operate as it should? WHAT are thise things? My guess is some sort of > updates to AV database (so can I remove old ones?). > You can safely delete the clamav- subfolders in /usr/local/share/clamav. Best regards, --Edwin _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
