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
