Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-03-01 Thread Gary V
Hello, Quick question... This is a snippet from the exim mailing list: > The routers and transports seem fine. However, a quick check > through a FreeBSD Spamassassin change log does reveal that a > bug was introduced that gave problems with Exim, Spamassassin > and BSMTP: > > http://pkgsrc.se/m

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-03-01 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Quick question... This is a snippet from the exim mailing list: > The routers and transports seem fine. However, a quick check > through a FreeBSD Spamassassin change log does reveal that a > bug was introduced that gave problems with Exim, Spamassassin > and BSMTP: > > http://pkgsrc.se/ma

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-03-01 Thread Adam Wilbraham
> You said in your other email that "since the --local option disables > net tests, SA may pass a lot more spam". Does this mean it will think > a lot of legit email is spam, whereas before it knew it was legit? Nope, he means the opposite - that a lot more spam will get through as clean, as the

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-03-01 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Replies inline... Gary V wrote: >> Hello, >> >> > If some work and some don't I suspect this could possibly >> > be a timeout issue. >> >> It is a timeout... see my message at 09:30 GMT this morning... >> >> >> 421 SMTP incoming

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Gary V
It disables network tests. I believe you can edit /etc/default/spamassassin and add it to the list of OPTIONS, e.g.: OPTIONS="--local --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir" then restart spamd /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart In order to help diagnose the problem you may also want

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Gary V
Hello, > If some work and some don't I suspect this could possibly > be a timeout issue. It is a timeout... see my message at 09:30 GMT this morning... 421 SMTP incoming data timeout - message abandoned ===

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, > If some work and some don't I suspect this could possibly > be a timeout issue. It is a timeout... see my message at 09:30 GMT this morning... 421 SMTP incoming data timeout - message abandoned

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Which startup scripts? There are a lot of them, some of which might call others... am i going to have to trawl through rc3.d or is there an easier way? Thanks again, Richard. Adam Wilbraham wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:20:28 + > Richard Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As fo

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, I have two problems currently: 1) sa-update may or may not be working - this is not urgent. 2) spamassassin itself is not working at all - this is very urgent! lol Does anyone have any idea why sa has stopped working for me? Let's ignore sa-update for the time being, unless it's relevant

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Gary V
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:26:52 + Richard Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IO::Socket::INET6 > IO::Socket::SSL > DBI > Mail::SPF::Query > IP::Country::Fast > Razor2::Client::Agent > Net::Ident After a quick apt-cache search I'd suggest these should be what you need: libsocket6-

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Bram Mertens
Richard Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/28/2007 01:03:55 PM: > Hello, > > Thank you - Before i go installing, do the following package names look > correct to you: > > > IO::Socket::INET6 > - libio-socket-inet6-perl > > > IO::Socket::SSL > - libio-socket-ssl-perl > > > DBI >

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Adam Wilbraham
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:26:52 + Richard Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IO::Socket::INET6 > IO::Socket::SSL > DBI > Mail::SPF::Query > IP::Country::Fast > Razor2::Client::Agent > Net::Ident After a quick apt-cache search I'd suggest these should be what you need: libsocket6-p

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Adam Wilbraham
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:20:28 + Richard Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for memory softlimits - i have no idea. How can i check? In your startup scripts for exim you may have some commands softlimit / ulimit commands...

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Thank you - Before i go installing, do the following package names look correct to you: > IO::Socket::INET6 - libio-socket-inet6-perl > IO::Socket::SSL - libio-socket-ssl-perl > DBI - libdbi-perl > Mail::SPF::Query - libmail-spf-query-perl > IP::Country::Fast -

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread John Fleming
Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:59 AM Subject: Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system Hello, Thank you for the link, but it's not for spamassassin... it does look very similar to the config i have in exim for spamassassin though. Does anyone know if i do need to adjust

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, I have now run "sa-update -D" and it has produced this: mail:~# sa-update -D [2304] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [2304] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [2304] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 [2304] dbg: config:

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, I would hope upgrading exim is not necessary, because that could easily become several weeks worth of approvals, testing, downtime etc...! As for memory softlimits - i have no idea. How can i check? Thanks again, Richard. Adam Wilbraham wrote: > My only other thoughts are - maybe you ma

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Adam Wilbraham
My only other thoughts are - maybe you may need to upgrade exim to a more recent version to keep the ability to talk to spamassassin working (probably not though...). Also have you got any memory softlimits set for exim / spamassassin or anything else ? In the past I've had issues with memory limit

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Thank you for the link, but it's not for spamassassin... it does look very similar to the config i have in exim for spamassassin though. Does anyone know if i do need to adjust the config in exim when upgrading spamassassin from "3.0.3-2sarge1" to "3.1.7-1~bpo.1" as per the backports repos

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Adam Wilbraham
Looks like an exim problem to me, how is exim calling spamc? Unfortunately I have no exim experience whatsoever (I use qmail / qmailscanner) but maybe you need to revisit your exim config after the upgrade... This link may be of use but I'm not sure... http://sys-admin.org/en/node/21 On Wed, 28 F

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, OK, since sending my last email (after upgrading to , but before running "sa-update") we have been having problems: mail:/var/log/exim4# grep BSMTP /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 2007-02-27 17:10:34 1HM5le-0008Sj-5j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd! Consider: 1) Run sa-update -D so you can see what it does or tries to do and what modules you might be missing and wan

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread Adam Wilbraham
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:36:32 + Richard Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd! > Hello, > > Thank you :-) > > Once i've run the command below, is there anyt

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread Gary V
Richard Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd! > Hello, > > Thank you :-) > > Once i've run the command below, is there anything i need to do, other > that rest

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Thank you :-) Once i've run the command below, is there anything i need to do, other that restart the spamassassin daemon? Thanks again, Hobbs. Adam Wilbraham wrote: > Yupp - try giving apt-get the "-t sarge-backports" switch to force it > to download from that repository, eg: > > ap

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread Adam Wilbraham
Yupp - try giving apt-get the "-t sarge-backports" switch to force it to download from that repository, eg: apt-get install -t sarge-backports spamassassin spamc Adam. On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:32:39 + Richard Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for this... i've added t

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Thank you for this... i've added that line to /etc/apt/sources.list, and run an "apt-get update". However, when i then run "apt-get install spamassassin" it says: spamassassin is already the newest version. As mentioned before, i'm actually running 3.0.3-2sarge1. Any ideas? The sourc

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread Adam Wilbraham
I've been using 3.1.7 from the sarge backports and its absolutely fine, much better spam catching rates due to the ability to run sa-update. Backports repo is: deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib non-free On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:55:40 + Richard Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Kettler
Richard Hobbs wrote: > Hello, > > I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin > available through the standard debian repositories - "spamassassin > 3.0.3-2sarge1". > > As you can imagine, having not done an update of the rules for a very > long time, it's pretty useless these

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Is it just as stable? i.e. ours hasn't hung or crashed so far for over 200 days... can you say whether this is true of 3.1 via backports? Also, is there an apt repo for 3.1 for sarge? Thanks again, Richard. John Fleming wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Richard Hobbs" > <[

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Richard Hobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 4:54 AM Subject: sa-update doesn't exist on my system Hello, I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin available through the standard debian repositories - "sp

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread Maciej Friedel
> BUT... the "sa-update" command doesn't seem to exist on my system... any > ideas? You need upgrade to 3.1.x if You neet tu use sa-update maciek -- |_|0|_| Maciej Friedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_|_|0| http://wwv.pl - usługi hostingowe |0|0|0| http://eprogram.pl - projektowanie stron www