thanks Ged, i will look into this def i found out what was eating all my space on sdb1, i ran the "du -sh" command on all dirs, it was my squid logs, so i just did this and reloaded squid
echo "" > /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log echo "" > /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k reconfigure On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 14:14, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users < clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Fri, 1 May 2020, robert k Wild via clamav-users wrote: > > > i have installed clamav using this link with squid so it can do realtime > > virus scanning on prople browsing the internet via this proxy > > > > > https://hostpresto.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-clamav-on-centos-7/ > > The tutorial doesn't seem to mention scanning proxies at all, and the > word 'squid' doesn't even appear on that page. It makes claims about > what ClamAV can be used do which I think are not justified. I think > you might be a little out of your depth, but we can probably help more > if you tell us more about what you're trying to do. > > You should be very choosy about tutorials like this that you find in > random places on the Internet. This tutorial gets you to install and > then run clamd, but doesn't use the daemon to do a scan! Perhaps the > author doesn't know that there's a 'clamdscan' utility. The tutorial > claims that ClamAV is used to secure filesystems. That's simply not > true, ClamAV was not designed for that purpose. The best that can be > said is that ClamAV can assist in detecting *some* potential threats. > It is a very long way from being the fire-and-forget magic bullet. > > Perhaps the simplest way to secure a filesystem is to burn it onto a > read-only medium, but even that wouldn't be the end of the story. And > the next simplest way is probably beyond the skills of most full-time > system administrators (even those who are at present paid to do the > job by multinational corporations - witness the never-ending stream of > reports in the press about compromises); so you will be embarking on a > challenging journey if you want to take this very much further. There > is a lot of information in the documentation on the ClamAV Website and > it's all free to download. It's worth spending some quality time with > it, and if you don't understand any of it you can ask here. > > > but obviously now my sdb is full and i have no space left > > It doesn't seem obvious to me. What is your sdb? Is there any reason > why you can't just provide an sdb with sufficient capacity? > > > i was wondering is there a way into deleting old virus > > definitions/databases as clamav must save them somewhere > > Before you go breaking something you've hardly even got to know yet, > take a few steps back and let us know what you want to achieve. Don't > give us your proposals for the solutions without first explaining the > problems you want to solve in as much detail as you can. > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > -- Regards, Robert K Wild.
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