"Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:31:31PM -0500, Debbie D wrote: >> Is sa-update something built in or is it an plug-in?? > >It's a script that comes with 3.1. > >> I ran sa-update && service spamassassin restart >> and was told spamassassin is an unknown service (dur I knew that) > >Ok. replace "service spamassassin restart" with the appropriate command >for >your machine. > >> BUT.. I see neither directory has updated files: >> /usr/share/spamassassin >> /etc/mail/spamassassin > >Correct. > >> Now I ran sa-update -D > >:) > >> and poking more I see it did bring down the latest cf files in >> /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org > >Yep. > >> I have verified manually that at least one rule set has changed since I >> last >> upgraded on Oct 11th.. >> 7733 Nov 10 22:53 25_uribl.cf >> 6738 Oct 11 22:35 /usr/share/spamassassin/25_uribl.cf > >Yep. 80_additional.cf is a new file too. > >> So now my next question is.. am I missing something here to have these >> downloaded rule sets in effect?? The FAQ say I should have to do nothing >> but > >Nope. > >> but somehow I don't think that's right.. I never told SA to look for >> rules >> in this new directory and even if I did then it would be reading the rule >> sets twice and causing a huge load issue.. > >SA knows to look there by itself (see "perldoc spamassassin"), and it's not >reading anything twice. SA uses the local state dir >(/var/lib/spamassassin/...) instead of the default rules dir >(/usr/share/spamassassin). OK thanks Theo.. what would be the best way for the to triple verify indeed it is picking up these new rules?? I'll set this to cron today on a weekly basic I think.. is that frequent enough?? And I assume as these folders start creating themselv'es with the new update SA knows enough to look at the lestest set only???
