ClamAV eating up all available disk space
- by Ra
Today I found that my Redhat server has run out of hard disk space. The culprit seems to be a program called Clamav that fills /tmp directory with thousands of subfolders with names like clamav-004adb870cd79534. All these folders contain this:
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Apr 21 07:56 .
drwxrwxrwt 68 root root 64K Apr 21 08:03 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 18K Apr 21 07:56 COPYING
-rw------- 1 root root 4.6M Apr 21 07:56 main.db
-rw------- 1 root root 14K Apr 21 07:56 main.fp
-rw------- 1 root root 1.5M Apr 21 07:56 main.hdb
-rw------- 1 root root 901 Apr 21 07:56 main.info
-rw------- 1 root root 33M Apr 21 07:56 main.mdb
-rw------- 1 root root 16M Apr 21 07:56 main.ndb
-rw------- 1 root root 217 Apr 21 07:56 main.zmd
When I deleted them they got back and filled my hard drive in about an hour again.
How do I go about this? Can I safely stop Clamav? It seems to me that Clamav is trying to upgrade unsuccessfully.
