Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Logan Shaw wrote: > Having said that, I'm confused about why /etc/crontab would > exist in any version of cron. It seems more complicated to > put root's crontab in a special place that's different than > the pattern for every other user (where crontabs are stored > somewhere

RE: Help for Beginner

2006-07-27 Thread Cabell, Dale
Can anyone please recommend a group for a beginner that needs help with cron? Its still not working. It would be appreciated. Thanks, Dale Cabell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:03 PM To: users@spamassassin.apa

Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:06:01PM -0500, Logan Shaw wrote: > Having said that, I'm confused about why /etc/crontab would > exist in any version of cron. It seems more complicated to > put root's crontab in a special place that's different than > the pattern for every other user (where crontabs ar

Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread Logan Shaw
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Logan Shaw wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote: By default, they're probably already setup. /etc/crontab usually points at them. What's an /etc/crontab? I've never seen one of those before. That's the global

Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Logan Shaw wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > By default, they're probably already setup. /etc/crontab usually points > > at them. > > What's an /etc/crontab? I've never seen one of those before. That's the global default crontab file (at least in som

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread Cabell, Dale
For course there is no run-pats in the manual... Dale -Original Message- From: Cabell, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:57 PM To: Logan Shaw; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Help for beginner Is this to run at 3:05am everyday? Also, run-parts

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread Cabell, Dale
Is this to run at 3:05am everyday? Also, run-parts is not running does it wake up somehow? Dale -Original Message- From: Logan Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:47 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Help for beginner On Thu, 27 Jul 2006

Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread Logan Shaw
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote: By default, they're probably already setup. /etc/crontab usually points at them. What's an /etc/crontab? I've never seen one of those before. In general, don't make files world writable unless you know you have to. Agreed. - Logan

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread Logan Shaw
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Cabell, Dale wrote: How do I get cron to look at my cron scripts in cron.daily or hourly for that matter? I can execute the script manually (e.g. ./). I did a chmod 755 on the file. Do I need to do a 777? The difference between 777 and 755 is that 777 would add the "2" bit

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread Cabell, Dale
Cron is running and it does not appear to execute the commands in the directories. Dale -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:42 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Help for beginner On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01

Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:31:48PM -0700, Cabell, Dale wrote: > How do I get cron to look at my cron scripts in cron.daily or hourly for > that matter? I can execute the script manually (e.g. ./). I did a chmod > 755 on the file. Do I need to do a 777? By default, they're probably already setup.

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-27 Thread Cabell, Dale
] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:47 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Help for beginner On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:38:14AM -0700, Cabell, Dale wrote: > How do I tell if the version I have was installed using yum, Make, etc? You can probably figure out if it's a packag

Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-26 Thread Anthony Peacock
Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:02 -0600, Nels Lindquist wrote: On 25 Jul 2006 at 14:17, Craig White wrote: http://www.mailscanner.info/linux.html This is the information page for installing MailScanner on RPM based Linux system. If you read this, you will see that even though

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:02 -0600, Nels Lindquist wrote: > On 25 Jul 2006 at 14:17, Craig White wrote: > > > > > http://www.mailscanner.info/linux.html > > > > This is the information page for installing MailScanner on RPM based > > Linux system. > > > > If you read this, you will see that eve

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Nels Lindquist
On 25 Jul 2006 at 14:17, Craig White wrote: > http://www.mailscanner.info/linux.html > > This is the information page for installing MailScanner on RPM based > Linux system. > > If you read this, you will see that even though you are using an rpm > based system, you download a tarball package,

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Craig White
Cabell > > -Original Message- > From: Craig White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:00 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Help for beginner > > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:16 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > FWIW, Dale&#x

Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:16 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > FWIW, Dale's been mailing me privately where I've been answering, but just for > everyone's info: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:04:18AM -0700, Cabell, Dale wrote: > > Where do I put the tar? After I untar it, where do I execute the > > r

Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:22:54AM -0700, Cabell, Dale wrote: > It shows it was installed as a package, but I can't find the "rpmbuild" > command. As stated in a previous (private) email, all of this package stuff depends on your platform. For me, on Fedora Core 4, rpmbuild is part of the rpm-bui

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Cabell, Dale
It shows it was installed as a package, but I can't find the "rpmbuild" command. Dale Cabell -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:17 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Help for beginner FW

Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Theo Van Dinter
FWIW, Dale's been mailing me privately where I've been answering, but just for everyone's info: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:04:18AM -0700, Cabell, Dale wrote: > Where do I put the tar? After I untar it, where do I execute the > rpmbuild from? "rpmbuild -tb" says to build a binary RPM from a tarbal

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Cabell, Dale
-Original Message- From: Cabell, Dale Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:54 AM To: 'Theo Van Dinter' Subject: RE: Help for beginner Where do I put the tar? After I untar it, where do I execute the rpmbuild from? Thanks, Dale Cabell -Original Message- From: Theo

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Cabell, Dale
-Original Message- From: Cabell, Dale Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:56 AM To: 'Theo Van Dinter' Subject: RE: Help for beginner Do I untar first and compile before making the package? What directory do I put the tar in? Where is the rpmbuild command? Is it in the tar? D

Re: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:38:14AM -0700, Cabell, Dale wrote: > How do I tell if the version I have was installed using yum, Make, etc? You can probably figure out if it's a package or not. "rpm -q spamassassin" ? > Where can I get a precompiled version? The tar file seems to be the only > avail

Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Cabell, Dale
I need to upgrade from 3.06 to 3.1.3. How do I tell if the version I have was installed using yum, Make, etc? Where can I get a precompiled version? The tar file seems to be the only available download. How do I tell where the functionality, which is now in additional plugins was previously? I n