omfg even killing it, then having to kill every individual sub process manually... re run using -f
and it still loops and times out. very braindead install process. looks like there is no way for spamassassin to install, I never recall having this problem ever before on all 3.x versions, but 4.0.0 is a useless bitch, i'm about to install rspamd On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:36 PM Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Venting > > Set up a new server today, took no time in postfix dovecot and amavisd, > apache roundcube, and everything, then came spamassassin > > thankfully I chose to install this whilst we left for lunch, but 45mins > later to my horror it was still trying to install, why? because its tests > failed for timeouts this, timeouts that, everytime its set keeps on > retrying reporting > > error: config: no rules were found! Do you need to run 'sa-update'? > config: no rules were found! Do you need to run 'sa-update'? > > of fricken course there is no rules, its a new fricken install that cpan > hasn't got around to yet to allow us to run sa-update. > > perhaps spamassassin developers can consider not everyone is upgrading, > there are some of us trying to get the fricken thing on the fricken machine > in the fricken first place. > > I am not going to run cpan with force because that may hide *real* errors. > >