Thanks for all of your help! BTW I started to use some of the configs as well as the black list for SA as well as qmail badmailfrom. I think it is just coincidence, but ever since I started using these scripts my available memory has gone up, which is totally opposite of what is suppose to happen correct?
The server has 256 megs of ram running qmail with qmail scanner running the config files for SA as well as clamav. Before installing the scripts it dip down to under 10 megs free. Since the second I restarted SA with the new scripts it has been steadily above 80 megs. Though I have restarted SA (spamD) before, it never freed up that much memory. But definitely not complaining. Just something I notice. (I check the memory usage on a daily basis, sometimes hourly to track potential hardware needs). Just an observation. Robert -----Original Message----- From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 4:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using BigEvil If I may save Jeff the trouble: On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:00:58PM -0700, Robert Bartlett wrote: > Thanks! I will check it out. Another question, using RulesDuJour. As I > understand it, it gets the latest scripts for SA, SARE. My question is if it > automatically downloads the newest scripts, what are the chances of a broken > script? Something above 0.0. :-) But rules_du_jour runs "spamassassin --lint" to check for broken rulesets. If any are found, the changes are backed out and SA is not reloaded. > Or is there such a thing? Could it be possible that RulesDuJour > could cause your SA system to become unstable? Hmm. Well that's above my guru-ness level, but the only thing I know of that's been problematic of late is blacklist.cf and bigevil.cf, because both have grown very large, causing heavily loaded or lightly provisioned servers to go to their knees. I've seen it. The solution for that is in Jeff's earlier reply, below. > Thanks > Robert > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 3:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Using BigEvil > > > On Monday, July 19, 2004, 3:43:26 PM, Robert Bartlett wrote: > > So real quick is BigEvil just a cf file that SA just reads? Or do you have > > to install some sort of software that recognizes the BigEvil cf file? If > > just a cf file then I just stick it in the SA folder then correct? > > I believe the answer is yes to all of the above. However > BigEvil.cf is now so big that it may no longer be practical > to run for many folks. It's probably better to use ws.surbl.org > instead: > > http://www.surbl.org/ > > ws has the same domain content as BigEvil but in more efficient > SURBL form. > > Jeff C. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com People we like the least need our love the most.
