[Novalug] Cleaning up /var

Will Rigby wrigby@gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 18:58:06 EST 2008


Jay,

I don't have experience with ClamAV, but if it were me, I would just delete
all of the files up to a month old.  Since they're in a tmp directory, they
can't be important unless they're recent...  hopefully.

Will

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:

> 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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