I believe you can enable compression in freshclam.conf. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Henry Choi <henry....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I am wondering if I can keep the size of the ClamAV DB to perhaps a > few MB or so... > > After more than a month of running both clamd and freshclam in daemon mode, > I see the database size larger than I might have expected. > $ ls -l clamav/ > total 43096 > -rw-r--r-- 1 henry mkgroup-l-d 3521024 Jan 19 14:24 daily.cld > -rw-r--r-- 1 henry mkgroup-l-d 40598016 Jan 19 14:29 main.cld > > Since sigtool shows more than 300k signatures, I guess the numbers are not > lying > $ sigtool --list-sigs | wc -l > 344952 > > If I only use clamav for scanning files on-demand (i.e. no email scanning), > could I perhaps curtail this DB size? If so, how can I go about this? > > Thank you for your comments! > Sincerely, > Henry > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > -- http://www.volatileminds.net _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
