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 package

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
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 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 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 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 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 some

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

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 are

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

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: snip 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

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

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 available

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 Van Dinter

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 tarball.

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 FWIW, Dale's been mailing

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-build

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 rpmbuild

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Craig White
- 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's been mailing me privately where I've been answering, but just

RE: Help for beginner

2006-07-25 Thread Nels Lindquist
On 25 Jul 2006 at 14:17, Craig White wrote: snip 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
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:02 -0600, Nels Lindquist wrote: On 25 Jul 2006 at 14:17, Craig White wrote: snip 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