Hello Dan, Monday, June 19, 2006, 5:30:15 PM, you wrote:
> I'm using sniffer on FreeBSD, plugging into Spamassassin. I am trying > to write a good autoupdate cron script that works as well on my FreeBSD > box as did the one I used to have on my Imail box. I can download the > Sniffer DB, but I can't use snf2check.exe in my cron script. When I > manually run the script logged in as root, and it gets to the line: > /var/spool/snfilter/snf2check.exe /var/spool/snfilter/filename.snf > xxxxauthcodexxxxxxx > The file checks out OK, however when it runs from cron (as root) it > always gets ERROR RULE AUTH. Does anyone have an autoupdate script that > is meant to run on a *nix-type system? Or does anyone know a solution > to my problem? There is no reason I can think of for this not to work except perhaps for a permissions problem. Error rule auth would generally indicate that the file was corrupt, or that the authentication string is incorrect. All update scripts should use snf2check.exe before pressing the new rulebase file into production or else you may cripple your scanner with a bad file. (the SNF scanner does a less comprehensive check to maintain speed). All that said, on this page you can find PerlAutoUpdates and a few others which might help: http://kb.armresearch.com/index.php?title=Message_Sniffer.TechnicalDetails.SubmittedScripts Best, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <sniffer@sortmonster.com>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
