Package: clamav-freshclam Severity: normal Hello,
although I purged freshclam (and clamav) from my system, a "/usr/bin/freshclam -d --quiet" process was left running, which kept the huge freshclam.log open, which left its disk space in /var/ allocated although I had deleted the file manually. freshclam being purged meant that the stop script in /etc/init.d was not there anymore to be used to shut freshclam down; killing the freshclam process manually obviously put an end to all the sufferings and freed that 1.2Gb I needed in my /var. I personally have no problems dealing with a scenario of "disk space is not freed while the file is still open" coupled with "purging freshclam leaves the daemon running" and "freshclam keeps its logfile open all the time", but I can see how it all can cause a rather bad friday afternoon to many, especiall because at that point "du" and friends will not show you where the disk space is used anymore :( Ciao, Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages clamav-freshclam depends on: pn clamav-base <none> (no description available) ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib pn libclamav6 <none> (no description available) ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime clamav-freshclam recommends no packages. Versions of packages clamav-freshclam suggests: pn clamav-docs <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
