G.W. Haywood wrote:
> 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:)?

Someone could always correct it for errors and omissions and paste it 
into the ClamAV Wiki. Otherwise, I don't know.

dp
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