Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 12:44 -0400, Grant Peel wrote: > > Just wondering how often people reccomend runing sa-update ? > > As often as you like [1]. It's just a DNS query, really cheap if there > is no update. However... > > (a) Generally, there is just one update a day, if at all. Thus, > checking hourly won't gain you much. > > (b) Updates tend to be more frequent after new SA releases, especially > minor updates (from 3.1.x to 3.2.0), not that much for micro version > updates (3.2.x). At this point, there haven't been any updates in, > err... weeks. ;) > > guenther > > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates
It depends on which rules you are updating. If you are updating the base rules and SARE rules, once a week or so is plenty. If you are using Justin's Sought rules, they are updated every 4 hours, so you should check more frequently...say every 4 hours. :) http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SoughtRules Just don't do the check on the hour. Put a random number in cron for the minute so everyone doesn't slam the servers at exactly X:00. -- Bowie
