On Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 22:46:29 +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 05:25:32PM -0500, Nick Templeton wrote: >> Since when running spamd(8) in blacklisting mode requires >> that spamd-setup(8) also be run with the "-b" option, should >> /etc/rc (the system startup script) be modified with something >> like I provide below? >> >> Index: rc >> =================================================================== >> RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/rc,v >> retrieving revision 1.304 >> diff -u -r1.304 rc >> --- rc 25 Apr 2007 14:12:05 -0000 1.304 >> +++ rc 18 May 2007 22:10:31 -0000 >> @@ -668,9 +668,10 @@ >> if [ X"${spamd_flags}" != X"NO" ]; then >> if [ X"${spamd_black}" != X"NO" ]; then >> spamd_flags="${spamd_flags} -b" >> + spamd_setup_flags="-b" >> fi >> echo -n ' spamd'; eval /usr/libexec/spamd >> ${spamd_flags} >> - /usr/libexec/spamd-setup >> + /usr/libexec/spamd-setup ${spamd_setup_flags} >> if [ X"${spamd_black}" = X"NO" ]; then >> echo -n ' spamlogd' >> /usr/libexec/spamlogd ${spamlogd_flags} >> > >why do you want to do this? spamd(8) says to use crontab.
Yes, but the default is once per hour. So without the -b flag to spamd-setup in /etc/rc, the blacklisted hosts are not sent to the <spamd> table in pf for quite some time. I think the proposed patch makes sense. Maurice