On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 08:27:16 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, David Niklas wrote: > > > I run sa-update but I want to know if any additional configuration > > is needed to tell sa that I want it to use the rules. > > You need to check the return status of sa-update to see whether the > rules were successfully updated, and if so, restart spamd or amavis > or whatever is using the rules. > > Question for others: if you're using compiled rules does the compiler > need to be run explicitly, or is that automatic?
It's not automatic, although some packages may install a periodic script to make it so. I think the case for running sa-compile after every update is greatly overstated. It's much more important to update and compile after a software version update because the rules and compiled rules are in versioned directories. If you then stop running sa-compile, all that happens is that a relatively small number of new and updated rules run a bit slower in perl. Running sa-compile gratuitously doesn't make much difference on most modern hardware, but it may do on something like a single-core Raspberry Pi. I remember on a single core Athlon, it was 30 minutes of 100% cpu usage.
