On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 08:35 -0500, Andy Norris wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know if this is relevant for you or not, but on our mail > server I could not get sa-update to work, either. I noticed that if > the directory was not there, however, it would work.
Sounds like a permissions issue. > So a down and > dirty approach I took was writing a crop job that removes that > directory just before running sa-update. So, you delete it every time, even when there are no updates? And since updates occur about once or twice a month, you are downloading the same stuff over and over. Plus you are missing rules at certain points of the cycle.... > I know this is going to be a > bit much for some folks on here to handle, but I had to get on with > life at some point! true, but you could just find the real problem (permissions) and fix it. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com