On 7/9/2012 5:42 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Den 2012-07-09 08:06, Henrik K skrev: > >> I just ditch main.cld which seems pointless, I think it saved >> something like >> 40-50MB. If there are actually ever any new "viruses", daily.cld >> should >> catch them. With this and most 3rd party sigs, clamd is only 80MB >> RSS. > so you think that virus that are very old are moved from main into > daily if seen daily ? > > if thats the case i can save some mem aswell :=) > > freshclam will just try to keep atleast main and daily :(
I'm not sure this is safe. The viruses in main.cld may be older than the ones in daily.cld, but that doesn't mean they aren't still out there. In answer to your question, I would very much doubt that virus definitions are every moved from main back to daily. Since you are expected to have the main.cld database, which already contains the definition, it would be a waste of bandwidth to force everyone to download it again in daily.cld. You should ask on the ClamAV list for a definitive answer. -- Bowie
