[Ma-linux] Cleaning up /var

[Mike Shade]

Jay,

cd to /var and see where all your space is actually taken up.

cd /var
du -sh *

Drill down to the source of your woes.

-- Mike

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org> wrote:

> > 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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> > **
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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
>
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