On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:41:23PM -0600, Christer Edwards wrote: > I thought I would share some of what I've figured out about the email > server so far. Maybe some of the veterans can shine some light on the > edges, and give us all a better picture. > > As has been mentioned, the sa-update cron job has been commented out > for some time. This was due to it "not working" (I've yet been able to > find a cause, and haven't yet tried running it again to verify). The
Since discovered it actually works. > concern with turning it back on is that it'll clobber any existing > profiles. From what I can gather, sa-update pulls down spam profiles > into /var/lib/spamassassin/3.xx/, and these can be updated frequently. > On my production Debian stable mail server, sa-update is part of the > default cron.daily/spamassassin script. /etc/cron.d/sa-update can break amavis (amavis used to go down a lot) The real cronscript is in /etc/cron.d/spamassassin I've forgotten that I changed/did that. Further, we use spamassassin so do NOT start spamassassin service, it is pointless (amavis does spamassassin directly, in-process I mean). > This /var/lib/spamassassin/ directory also has profiles for what > appear to be all the lists managed on this box. Many of these seem to > be standard, default list-name.pref/ folders, and the modify time on > these files is 2004-2005. Just do what you think is best. > I think what I would like to try and do is tar up the > /var/lib/spamassassin/ contents as an archive/backup, and run > sa-update. Hopefully this will simply update the profiles (which don't > seem to have been updated in years!), and all will be well. If there > is a connection issue or something else related to sa-update I'll > better be able to troubleshoot it after running it (sa-update -D for > debug output). As per above, sa-update actually is running. I just thought it was disabled due to error output from the script, but apparently, that is not the case (bad memory:) > Also, the rules-du-jour script that was mentioned seems to be > deprecated at this point. It appears that it is simply a bash wrapper > around an update system to pull community spam profiles from the > http://rulesemporium.com website, which is no longer being maintained. > I don't think use of this script is going to help us much anymore. Please remove traces from it then, to clean up our configuration. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
