--On Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:07 PM +0000 Duane Hill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would assume sa-update wouldn't overwrite the default distribution
rules that are initially installed. That would mean they would have to be
placed somewhere else. This would be based on the fact that a new SA
install could potentially overwrite updated rules if they were placed
within /usr/local/share/spamassassin.
Some systems run with /usr mounted read-only. (It might even be a shared
partition, mounted over the network from another server.) /var is where
local varying data goes. sa-update runs frequently, much more frequently
than the system upgrades that remount /usr read-write. That means it has to
write to /var.