[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
>>
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