[Kolab-devel] [issue3166] ClamAV clutters up space in /kolab/share/clamav

[Andrew J. Kopciuch]

On October 20, 2008, Saim Kim wrote:
> New submission from Saim Kim <s.kim at hia.rwth-aachen.de>:
>
> Hello,
>
> today my kolab 2.2 system stopped working: Every time a new appointment was
> created a user would receive an IMAP error stating that the server is out
> of memory. A quick check showed, that the harddisk was at the limit. The
> reason was the /kolab/share/clamav folder. It was filled with almost 40 GB
> of data named "clamav-alphanumericnumbers" of a size between 4 kB and 4 MB.
> It seems that everytime freshclam updates the virus db, it forgets to clean
> up -slowly filling the harddisk.
>
> A quick answer from the clamav mailinglist was to just delete those files
> since freshclam would download the files it needs during the automatic
> update check. This helped me to solve the problem. Nevertheless, this seems
> to be a bug to me.
>
> Best regards,
> Saim

This is not happening on openPKG installations I checked.  What kind of 
installation did you do?  OpenSUSE?  Debian?



Andy
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