On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:31:31PM -0500, Debbie D wrote:
> Is sa-update something built in or is it an plug-in??

It's a script that comes with 3.1.

> I ran sa-update && service spamassassin restart
> and was told spamassassin is an unknown service (dur I knew that)

Ok.  replace "service spamassassin restart" with the appropriate command for
your machine.

> BUT.. I see neither directory has updated files:
> /usr/share/spamassassin
> /etc/mail/spamassassin

Correct.

> Now I ran sa-update -D

:)

> and poking more I see it did bring down the latest cf files in
> /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org

Yep.

> I have verified manually that at least one rule set has changed since I last 
> upgraded on Oct 11th..
> 7733 Nov 10 22:53 25_uribl.cf
> 6738 Oct 11 22:35 /usr/share/spamassassin/25_uribl.cf

Yep.  80_additional.cf is a new file too.

> So now my next question is.. am I missing something here to have these 
> downloaded rule sets in effect?? The FAQ say I should have to do nothing but 

Nope.

> but somehow I don't think that's right.. I never told SA to look for rules 
> in this new directory and even if I did then it would be reading the rule 
> sets twice and causing a huge load issue..

SA knows to look there by itself (see "perldoc spamassassin"), and it's not
reading anything twice.  SA uses the local state dir
(/var/lib/spamassassin/...) instead of the default rules dir
(/usr/share/spamassassin).

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