Whats the deal with this?
It looks as if periodically RulesEmporium gets busy and sends a refresh
file instead of a real .cf file, probably with the intent of asking the
requesting client to try again. curl can't deal intelligently with a
http-equiv refresh, so rather than trying again, it simply stores the
refresh file as the result and spamassassin --lint fails. The errant
file retrieved looks like:
<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
</HEAD></HTML>
This happens with relative frequency on 99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf but
apparently (see below) with other files too.
When this happens (perhaps after it's happened twice), two files are
produced in /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJour; 99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf and
99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf.2. Apparently the rules_du_jour script can't
recover from this and consistently fails on successive runs until the
bad files are manually deleted.
I haven't gone over the bash script in rules_du_jour in detail, but has
anyone looked at this problem in detail? Is there a known fix?
This shouldn't really be hard. A Quick-n-Nasty Unix-style solution
would be to run
grep -il 'META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"' ${TMPDIR}/* |xargs -n1 rm
before running spamassassin --lint
here's a suggested patch:
*********************
--- tmp/rules_du_jour~ 2007-06-17 21:01:24.000000000 -0500
+++ /var/lib/spamassassin/rules_du_jour 2007-06-17 21:01:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@
done
-
+grep -il 'META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"' ${TMPDIR}/* |xargs -n1 rm
*********************
This won't pick up the problem file on the current run, but will clear
the way for it to be retrieved next time.
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:43 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:24 -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > Although rule_du_jour is still giving me HTML for SARE_OEM.
>
> Delete /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJure/70_sare_oem*
> (or /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJure/70_sare_oem*) and run rules_du_jour
> again.
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