Yes you are reading correctly. Really what I want to do is improve the list and keep as much spam fighting stuff in there, but try to tweak it where I don't kill the servers.
1 of the servers has a xeon 3GHZ processor and the other is a dual pIII 1GHZ. If you have any experience with some of the files I am using not really being effective and just burning cpu cycles, then I guess that is where everyone's experience can help me. I do understand what your saying with the fact that the cf file resides in the directory as well as appreciate the script idea. Thanks, Joey -----Original Message----- From: Kelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:28 PM To: SpamAssassin Subject: Re: Help with config... I went a LITTLE overboard Joey wrote: > Below is my config, how can I pick what to use -vs- not when we are > getting slammed and need all the blocking we can, but of course don't > want the server to die in the next 24 hours. I cleaned up the file > some as you can see from my FIRST CONFIG FILE to SECOND. If I'm reading this right, these are config files for Rules du Jour. These only specify which rulesets that script will automatically update, not which rulesets SpamAssassin will use. SA will use any .cf files it finds in /etc/mail/spamassassin, but it will not look in subdirectories. To disable rulesets temporarily, you'll need to move the .cf files out of /etc/mail/spamassassin and restart spamd. If you've picked a set that you always want to disable under these circumstances, you can create a directory and write a short script like this: #!/bin/sh SA_DIR="/etc/mail/spamassassin" DISABLED_DIR="/etc/mail/spamassassin/disabled" SA_RESTART="killall -HUP spamd" DISABLE_FILES="example1.cf example2.cf example3.cf" cd $SA_DIR mv $DISABLE_FILES $DISABLED_DIR $SA_RESTART Then when you want to reactivate them, you can just move all the files out of the disabled directory back to /etc/mail/spamassassin and restart spamd again. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
