On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:01:53 +0100, Nigel Frankcom
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I saw the mention earlier about spamd logs and thought I'd check mine.
>In 12 hours it has achieved the impressive, if very worrying size of
>1.8 Gb. A check back over the last few days show similarly sized logs.
>
>My system lint's clean. and sa-compile ran fine after I removed the
>rules that were throwing an error (and mucked about getting ImageInfo
>working without erroring).
>
>Will dropping the -s /var/log/spamd.log from /init.d/spamassassin stop
>logging? I know that's not an ideal solution but it's certainly
>preferable to multi Gb log files.
>
>This isn't going to kill my hdd or fill it, but it's certainly not
>going to be helping matters.
>


It seems spamd -s null in the init.d will stop logging
(http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/spamd.html) but, even
if the rules are erroring, are they actually doing anything to catch
spam? Is it better to remove the rules or kill the logging?

Thoughts anyone?

Kind regards

Nigel

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