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

[Richard Bos]

Op Monday 20 October 2008 17:38:53 schreef 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?

Looks like openpkg to me as his clamav files are stored at: 
 /kolab/share/clamav


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