Ed Kasky wrote: > At 04:59 PM Thursday, 4/6/2006, you wrote -=> >> Ed Kasky wrote: >> > At 03:39 PM Thursday, 4/6/2006, you wrote -=> >> >> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Ed Kasky wrote: >> >> >> >> > I have the following in /etc/mail/spamassasin/local.cf >> >> > required_hits 6.9 >> >> > >> >> > Yet I just noticed the following that started at some point Tuesday: >> >> > >> >> > Content analysis details: (18.3 points, 5.0 required) >> >> > >> >> > It's true for all users. I double checked fro multiple local.cf >> >> > files and the user_prefs files. The required_hits lines are >> >> > remarked out in the individual user files. Where else might this be >> >> > coming from? >> >> > >> >> > Running SA version 3.1.1 with Sendmail 8.13.6 >> >> >> >> What mechanism are you using to connect sendmail to SA? Procmail or >> >> amavisd-new or a milter like spamass-milter or MIMEDefang or >> >> something else? >> >> >> >> Some of those mechanisms load an instance of SA into their own Perl >> >> engine (EG amavisd-new) and have their own seperate config files. >> >> >> >> So we need more information to answer your question. >> > >> > Sorry about that - I am running spamd and call spamc via procmail: >> > >> > :0fw >> > * < 300000 >> > | spamc -f -u spamd >> > >> >> Any chance you didn't reload spamd after editing local.cf? >> >> Also, for what it's worth, required_hits is deprecated. It's still >> accepted, but >> the preferred option is required_score. At some point in the future, >> support for >> required_hits might go away, so while you're setting things up it >> might be worth >> changing to the newer syntax to avoid future headaches. > > I usually edit the local.cf via a script that reloads spamd if there are > any changes. I even re-started it just this morning to see if that was > the case but it still kept using the 5.0 score. > > I forgot to mention before that "spamassassin -D --lint" was using the > 6.9 as threshold but spamc was using 5.0. I changed the line in the cf > to required_score 6.9 and now a lint shows: > dbg: check: is spam? score=3.586 required=7 > > Does it round using required_score?
It should behave the same as when using required_hits. Required_hits is merely an alias for required_score, they can't behave differently. > > Anyway, spamc continues to use the 5.0 score after the change and restart: > Apr 6 17:19:34 yoda2 spamd[10978]: spamd: clean message (-101.1/5.0) > > My /etc/sysconfig/spamd: > OPTIONS="-d -u spamd -H /home/spamd -m 15" > > Last time I had a problem like this, I had multiple local.cf files. A > locate turned up only one instance in /etc/mail/spamassassin..... > Hmm, what are the permissions on /etc/mail/spamassassin and /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf? Any chance either or both are owner-only and not readable by the spamd user?
