I've been seeing this error recently too. If I run sa-update from the command line (with debug options), as follows;
sa-update --refreshmirrors -vvvvv -D I see these messages; Dec 12 09:11:02.699 [5628] dbg: channel: --refreshmirrors used, forcing mirrors file refresh on channel updates.spamassassin.org Dec 12 09:11:02.700 [5628] dbg: channel: DNS lookup on mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org DNS TXT query: mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org -> http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY fetching http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY Dec 12 09:11:02.711 [5628] dbg: http: url: http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY Dec 12 09:11:02.712 [5628] dbg: http: downloading to: /var/lib/spamassassin/3.004001/updates_spamassassin_org/MIRRORED.BY, replace Dec 12 09:11:02.712 [5628] dbg: util: executable for curl was found at /usr/bin/curl Dec 12 09:11:02.712 [5628] dbg: http: /usr/bin/curl -s -L -O --remote-time -g --max-redirs 2 --connect-timeout 30 --max-time 300 --fail -o MIRRORED.BY -- http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY Dec 12 09:11:32.724 [5628] dbg: http: process [5629], exit status: exit 28 http: (curl) GET http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY, FAILED, status: exit 28 Dec 12 09:11:32.726 [5628] dbg: channel: no mirror data available for channel updates.spamassassin.org from http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY error: unable to refresh mirrors file for channel updates.spamassassin.org, using old file error: no mirror data available for channel updates.spamassassin.org channel: MIRRORED.BY file contents were missing, channel failed It seems there's a timeout when curl attempts to retrieve http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY Note: according to curl man pages, exit code 28 is a timeout. It seems to be intermittent tho. If I run 'curl -X GET http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY' at the command line, some times it returns immediate results. Sometimes it times out. I've temporarily increased the curl timeout from 30 seconds to 120 seconds in /usr/bin/sa-update. I did this by changing the following (found at around line 1472); push(@args, qw(-s -L -O --remote-time -g --max-redirs 2 --connect-timeout 30 --max-time 300 --fail -o), $out_fname_short); to push(@args, qw(-s -L -O --remote-time -g --max-redirs 2 --connect-timeout 120 --max-time 300 --fail -o), $out_fname_short); Will see if the error is reported in the next few cron daily updates. -- Sent from: http://spamassassin.1065346.n5.nabble.com/SpamAssassin-Users-f3.html
