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 The upgrade FAQ lists different methods for upgrading, based on if you installed from packages or from source originally. Not 100% sure how the original install was done. If I don't see clam listed in the output of yum or rpm, do I assume it was built from source? THanks Chris _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
