Quoting Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, as I said above no updates have been published since Jan 14th. So > I would not expect any. > > However, sa-update's don't go in /usr/share/spamassassin. You'll *NEVER* > see updates if you keep looking there. Feb 7th should be the date of > your install. > > Updates go into /var/lib/spamassassin/<version > number>/updates_spamassassin_org/ > > If you look there, there should be files that are newer than > /usr/share/spamassassin, but you'll only have found an update once since > install. You won't find any again until a dev chooses to push rules to > 3.2 That could be tomorrow, it could be a year from now. > > Don't expect daily updates. SpamAssassin is not an anti-virus product. > We don't need new rules for each and every spam message, we only need > them when there's a very significant mutation.
Thanks Matt for your patience in explaining all that. I really appreciate it. Quoting Mike Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 00 * * * * /usr/bin/sa-update --gpgkey 6C6191E3 --channel > sought.rules.yerp.org --gpgkey D1C035168C1EBC08464946DA258CDB3ABDE9DC10 > --channel saupdates.openprotect.com --channel updates.spamassassin.org > --allowplugins > > > > Am I missing anything? > > Beside the other comments, throw something like "&& > /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart" onto the end of your cron job. You're > going to want SA to restart if the rules actually change. sa-update sets > the exit code to 0 only when it updates the rules, so if no updates, no > restart. > So my cron would look like this then? 00 * * * * /usr/bin/sa-update --gpgkey 6C6191E3 --channel sought.rules.yerp.org --gpgkey D1C035168C1EBC08464946DA258CDB3ABDE9DC10 --channel saupdates.openprotect.com --channel updates.spamassassin.org --allowplugins && /etc/init.d/spamd restart Quoting Matthias Leisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As a courtesy to server operators, please refrain from running your cron > jobs at x:00, and especially at 00:00 -- moving back and forth a couple > of minutes reduces load peaks on the remote servers (and also on your > own machines, since other jobs may run at the same time). > > - -- Matthias Thanks Matthias, will do that. -- Roger --------------------------------------------------- Sign Up for free Email at http://ureg.home.net.my/ ---------------------------------------------------
