On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:08 PM, c chupela <cnctem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've inherited an old CentOS(v5.5) installation running CLamAV 0.95.3. > /usr/local/share/clamav is using 283GB of space, and it looks like old > signature updates. I saw a previous question on this with a newer release > of clam, and the advice given was to check freshclam.log, because updates > weren't being applied if they were left lying around. > > I however don't have one of those logs on the server. > > Anyone know with this older release if issues were logged elsewhere? Can > I just delete these old pattern files? THey go back to early 2010. > > THanks > > > Chris Hey Chris, Your safest bet is just to start fresh. You'll want to upgrade the ClamAV installation to 0.98.4 and delete the old signature files. Our current signature databases take up around 201MB as uncompressed .cld files. You might want to backup the old /usr/local/share/clamav just in case things blow up when upgrading. Thanks, Shawn _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
