On Friday 20 July 2007, Richard Frovarp wrote: >Skip Brott wrote: >> I ran with the --nogpg option and was able to get all the files to >> download. Yay! But do I really want to run it that way? >> >> And on that note, how does SA know where to find the .cf files in >> /var/lib/spamassassin? Does it see subfolders and load the .cf files >> from there? Or do those downloaded updates automatically replace my >> .cf files in /etc/mail/spamassassin, where I have always kept my rules? >> >> - Skip > >What instructions were you following? It doesn't appear that you >followed them completely. You need a --gpgkey config switch in there. > >/etc/mail/spamassassin always overrules anything else located anywhere >else. SA knows perfectly well how to load the files from >/var/lib/spamassassin. So long as sa-update runs, you have nothing to >worry about. If you have any duplicates in /var/lib/spamassassin and >/etc/mail/spamassassin, the ones in /etc/mail will override those in >/var. So get rid of the duplicate rules in /etc, as those under /var are >the ones being updated.
If this is so, and it appears to be, then why did I just repeat an lsof|grep spamd every second for 2 cycles of my mail fetching activities without ever seeing spamd have a file open in /var/lib/spamassassin? Where is this configured, and I'll fix it. Yes, the ones in /var are being updated by sa-update whereas the ones in /etc are not, but if its using them, I'd have to assume they would show up in an lsof. They do not, here on a fully up2date FC6 install. In fact, I have 3 subtrees in /var/lib/spamassassin: 3.001007 3.002000 3.002001 each of which appears to contain >95% dups, with differing file dates, with the most recent being dated July 16 in the 3.002001 tree. Can I safely delete the earlier dated trees? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives."
