[clamav-users] What are all the tmp.xyzuvwpqrs subdirs that keep accumulating

Paul Netpresto paul at netpresto.co.uk
Fri Feb 12 03:08:18 UTC 2021


Hi

Possibly resolved with ....

"Fixed FreshClam's --on-update-execute=EXIT_1 temporary directory 
cleanup issue."

Taken from https://blog.clamav.net/2021/02/clamav-01031-patch-release.html


On 12/02/2021 02:13, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote:
> For ClamAV 0.103.0:
>    root at ime1:~# grep -i temporary /opt/clamav.d/clamav.0.103.0/etc/clamd.conf
>    # Optional path to the global temporary directory.
>    TemporaryDirectory /var/clamav/tmp
>    # Do not remove temporary files (for debug purposes).
>    LeaveTemporaryFiles 0
>
> For ClamAV 0.102.1 it was the same:
>    root at ime1:~# grep -i temporary /opt/clamav.d/clamav.0.102.2/etc/clamd.conf
>    # Optional path to the global temporary directory.
>    TemporaryDirectory /var/clamav/tmp
>    # Do not remove temporary files (for debug purposes).
>    LeaveTemporaryFiles 0
>
> But the subdirs are in my "/opt/clamav.d/clamav.0.103.0/share/clamav/" directory. (I install each new version under opt, "just in case".)
>
> And there's no "temporary". "tmp" or "temp" (except in the word "attempt") in my freshclam.conf file.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 23:52:37 +0000 (GMT)
> "G.W. Haywood via clamav-users" <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote:
>>
>>> in my clamav.0.103.0/share/clamav/ directory?
>>>
>>> They don't seem to have been there with clamav.0.102.0 and earlier.
>> What's the output of
>>
>> grep -i temporary clamd.conf
>>
>> ?
>>
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