[Novalug] Cleaning up /var

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Fri Nov 28 13:14:46 EST 2008


Ken,

Is this advice for removing the amavis-yearmonthday(something) directories, or
the clamav-(something) files?  I've already deleted the directories.

Jay

> Stop the amavisd daemon then delete inside the structure.  Do not
> remove the tmp directory itself.  Start the daemon.
>
> K
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 18:16, Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:
>> I noticed that /var on my email/web server is down to 175MB free space.  the
>> partition is 5.1GB, so something(s) eating up space.
>>
>> I noticed that I have a lot of directories or files in /var/spol/amavis/tmp.
>>
>> The directories all start as amavis-yearmonthday(something), while the files
>> all start as clamav-(somthing).
>>
>> They range in date (created) from Jan 2007 to todays date.
>>
>> I feel that I can safely delete the bulk of these files without any
>> problems.
>>
>> Can someone confirn this?
>>
>> I am running postfix, clamav, courier, apache, and squirrelmail FYI.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Novalug mailing list
>> Novalug@calypso.tux.org
>> http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>>
>





More information about the Novalug mailing list