Hi there,

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 Dennis Peterson wrote:

> David Liang wrote:
> >
> > Do you mean there are multiple virus databases on my server? For the
> > clamav was installed by other people, so I didn't notice it. Is it OK
> > to  delete other virus database just leave daily.inc and main.inc?
>
> Yes - you have both inc and cvd versions as well as a number of older
> broken downloads. Files or directories with name patterns such as
> clamav-3d5c333808b1d1d7e983fa988790288f are not supposed to remain on
> the system - if they are older than the most recent freshclam session
> then they are debris left over from an earlier failed freshclam session.
> Of the files provided by freshclam downloads, there should be no files
> in there that are older than the most recent main.inc files.
>
> There may be other non-ClamAV managed pattern files there that can be
> older (SaneSecurity, MSRBL, self-constructed database files), but even
> these, if present, should be kept up to date. You have none so it's not
> an issue for you.

Jut thinking out loud, is all this written down somewhere (else:)?

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73,
Ged.
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