severity 679492 wishlist thanks On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:38:55AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Sa_update needs be run before spamassassin in order for the rules to be up-to- > date. I had been doing this in rc.local as well. Should be a more > correct/Debian way.
If you choose to run sa-update before starting spamd, that's fine, and not a bad idea if your host reboots frequently. Since sa-update potentially takes some time (especially if sa-compile is used), running it on every reboot could have an undesirable impact on boot time. Additionally, since spamd is typically run on mail servers, which don't reboot frequently, I believe this change would be of minimal benefit to most users. > > This might be reclassified a security issue! Since sa-update is optional and is never run automatically by default, you'll have a hard time convincing me that not running it at boot time is a security issue. I don't plan on making the requested change. However, if somebody provides a patch to implement it, I'd consider applying it. noah
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