On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 13:54, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote: >> > After a bit of digging I found that sa-update had, in fact, updated my >> > system >> > before I read this. > > On 04.01.10 15:41, Alex wrote: >> sa-update had also updated my system, and amavisd was restarted. >> However, the 72_active.cf in /usr/share/spamassassin somehow overrode >> the updated one from /var/lib/spamassassin/. >> >> Any idea how this could happen? It was necessary for me to manually >> update the 72_active.cf in /usr/share/spamassassin for this to work. > > there's something broken in your setup (amavis?). Rules from > /var/lib/spamassassin/ should override /usr/share/spamassassin
one way this could happen: the /var/lib/... rules are from an older version of SA, but the /usr/share/... rules are from the one corresponding to what is used when amavisd is run. --j.