[Ma-linux] Cleaning up /var

[Jay Hart]

> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 06:16:23PM -0500, Jay Hart wrote:
>> I noticed that /var on my email/web server is down to 175MB free space.  the
>> partition is 5.1GB, so something(s) eating up space.
>>
>> I noticed that I have a lot of directories or files in /var/spol/amavis/tmp.
>>
>> The directories all start as amavis-yearmonthday(something), while the files
>> all start as clamav-(somthing).
>>
>> They range in date (created) from Jan 2007 to todays date.
>>
>> I feel that I can safely delete the bulk of these files without any
>> problems.
>>
>> Can someone confirn this?
>
>
> Check the AMaViS docs, but IIRC those are the quarantined messages.  If
> nobody has complained that an important message has not arrived, and you
> are confident in ClamAV's diagnostic abilities, then delete them all.
>
>
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Yes the amavis stuff is quarantine items. I deleted all of the amavis-whatever
directories older than this month. So far everything woking fine.  Now, to the
clamav files.

Each file is the same size, 5.2+MB, I have about 6-8 per day, earliest file
date is 10-2-08, most recent was yesterday (when I last checked).  I'm not
sure what these files might be, I can't view them.  /var/spool/amavis/tmp is
used for amavis tmp files, but I couldn't find any reference from clamav or
freshclam showing they would store tmp files in the same directory.  I think
the clamav tmp dir is /var/tmp.  Looking in that dir shows no (old) tmp files.

Since the oldest file date is 10-2-08, it looked like a script was running to
clean these files up based on a certain age.  I couldn't see any scripts from
cron that were doing this, so again I'm wondering about these files.

Other comments???

Jay