On 5 Jun 2018, at 4:24, Peter Hutchison wrote:
I have recently upgraded my mail mta servers from Ubuntu 14.04 to
Ubuntu 16.04 but the daily spamassassin cron job is failing to update
the database in
/usr/lib/spamassassin/3.9004001/update_spamassassin_org folder.
That's a very odd version number. Is that an Ubuntu thing?
I have made sure that the cron job has the proxy env variables set and
also updated /etc/wgetrc
But it still regularly fails with this error. I have even configured
.curlrc file in root profile with proxy settings.
/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin:
channel: could not find working mirror, channel failed sa-update
failed for unknown reasons
I can manually update it ok, but not via a cron job. What else do I
need to configure to ensure it works every time?
Impossible to say for sure. Adding "-D" to the actual sa-update
invocation in /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin would provide more extensive
detail about what's happening.
