On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 15:47 -0600, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > The only thing I can _possibly_ think of is that sa-update is run > nightly, but spamd doesn't get rebooted nightly... > Are you sure? Take a look at how sa_update is getting run to make sure that it is doing what you expect.
sa_update is normally run by the 'sa_update' script, which lives in /etc/cron.daily. This script restarts spamd if /usr/bin/sa-update returns 0, which only happens if the rules were updated. Martin