On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:28:31 +0100, Nigel Frankcom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:01:53 +0100, Nigel Frankcom ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hi All, >> >>I saw the mention earlier about spamd logs and thought I'd check mine. >>In 12 hours it has achieved the impressive, if very worrying size of >>1.8 Gb. A check back over the last few days show similarly sized logs. >> >>My system lint's clean. and sa-compile ran fine after I removed the >>rules that were throwing an error (and mucked about getting ImageInfo >>working without erroring). >> >>Will dropping the -s /var/log/spamd.log from /init.d/spamassassin stop >>logging? I know that's not an ideal solution but it's certainly >>preferable to multi Gb log files. >> >>This isn't going to kill my hdd or fill it, but it's certainly not >>going to be helping matters. >> > > >It seems spamd -s null in the init.d will stop logging >(http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/spamd.html) but, even >if the rules are erroring, are they actually doing anything to catch >spam? Is it better to remove the rules or kill the logging? > Correction: The change I've made to disable logging is in /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin It seems to have stopped the logging at least, I'm unsure of what other problems it may create. KR Nigel
