On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 at 3:10:48 -0700, Starbane wrote: > Tomasz Papszun wrote: > >On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 at 22:34:09 -0700, Starbane wrote: > >>----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- > >>Known viruses: 41374 > > ^^^^^ > >You've got some superfluous database files. > >There are only 20718 signatures currently. > > > >Maybe you've got old format database files left. You should remove > >needless files from database directory not only because they > >unnecessarily use more memory, but also because after we remove any > >possible false positive signature from current database, you'll still > >have it in your setup, which may cause false alarms. > > > > Of course, that;s unrelated to the (no longer a-) problem, but I was
Of course. I just forgot to add "BTW" in my message. > under the impression that if the new database mirrors were hosed and my Why would they? :-) In fact, new database mirrors are much better. > cvd's became corrupt, it might be helpful to retain the old viruses.db > files. > > I have no lack of Ram or cpu time on these servers - is this really a > concern? Probably not. Just possible old false positive alarms can happen. > I've seen a few repsones to various issues with the cvd files > saying that the old databses should be retained. Bad info? I think so. I don't remember such advices. -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/ | ones and zeros. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ClamAV.net/ A GPL virus scanner ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
