When I first install SA, with...
cd Mail-SpamAssassin-*
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
...all of the rule files (10_misc.cf, 20_advance_fee.cf, etc...) get installed
in /usr/local/share/spamassassin/
However when I do sa-update, all of the updated rules go to
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001003/updates_spamassassin_org/, giving me two
complete sets of rules in two different locations.
To get the updated rule files to go to the same location as the original rule
files, I thought I would do "sa-update --updatedir
/usr/local/share/spamassassin/". But that didn't work either. It put the new
rule files in /usr/local/share/spamassassin/updates_spamassassin_org/, so I
still had two set of rules in two different locations.
Why doesn't the location of the rules directory default to the same place
whether I am installing SA or using sa-update?
Second question - there are a couple of files that the original SA installation
puts in /usr/local/share/spamassassin/ but sa-update does not put in
/var/lib/spamassassin/....
user_prefs.template
triplets.txt
sa-update-pubkey.txt
languages
Does SA need any of these files, and will it miss them since it will load
default configuration data from the /var/lib/spamassassin/... directory first?
(From the man page:
Default configuration data is loaded from the first existing directory
in:
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001003
/usr/local/share/spamassassin
/usr/local/share/spamassassin
/usr/local/share/spamassassin
/usr/share/spamassassin)
Thank you.
Greg
