I am having a problem with clam occasionally when it does an update. Specifically what happens is that my /var/amavis/tmp directory fills up with temp files. This seems to happens when clam fails to download an update. My freshclam.conf file is set to download an update 24 times a day. What I see when this has happened is that there is a "*.cvd" file in the /var/lib/clamav directory, see the following ls:
total 24 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 clamav clamav 4096 Apr 8 09:43 . 8 drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 4096 May 29 2007 .. 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 7 05:00 *.cvd 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Apr 8 08:43 daily.inc 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Apr 7 04:43 main.inc 4 -rw------- 1 clamav clamav 1196 Apr 8 09:43 mirrors.dat I could not initially determine why I would have a "*.cvd" file in that directory, until I was looking at my cron.daily and found that there is a freshclam script in it with the following contents: #!/bin/bash # Remove garbage occasionally left after unsuccessful updates /bin/touch -a /var/lib/clamav/*.cvd /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 72 /var/lib/clamav I do not know why this script is here, but I do know that the "touch" command will create a file called "*.cvd" if there are no files ending with "cvd" in that directory. The question is what happened to the original "cvd" files. I was looking at the source code for clamav. and found where I think that it removes the old copies of the data files before it downloads new ones, but I am a little rusty in C. if that is the case then should I modify this freshclam script to look like the following, or am I missing the bigger picture, I.e. do I really need this script in the daily cron? I originally put it in there I believe because it was in the general installation instructions for the version of clamav that I started with. I hope that this is clear enough for someone to have a logical answer for me. If not then I will answer any questions. Respectfully, Mark P. Fraser _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
