Thanks!!! I am running debian lenny. In my /etc/cron.daily it is a script called "spamassassin" I guess it is this script that runs the updates.
Thans for the help!! Martin Gregorie-2 wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 14:00 -0800, brodos wrote: > >> I just ran a sa-update -D as root. >> It seems that the rules are updated automatically without running >> sa-update, >> and I dont have a cron job for this. >> I havent run sa-update for months and when I look into >> /var/lib/spamassassin.... it says the files were modyfied for 14 days >> ago. >> Is there any automatically update settings that I am not aware of? If so >> in >> what file is this specifyed? (local.cf??) >> > You don't say what OS/distro you're using, but have you looked at the > contents of the /etc/cron* directories? > > I run Fedora 10. My copy of SA is the standard Fedora package for that > distro. As part of its normal SA install it adds a cron job called > sa_update to /etc/cron.daily, where it runs silently every night. My > last update was the rush job to fix the 2010 problem on the 2nd of > Jan..... > > My guess is that your SA installation has done something very similar. > > FWIW I replaced the standard setup with a modified script (posted here a > few days back) that e-mails me with what it did each run. I run this on > a weekly basis and, in consequence, know when the cron job has run and > what it did. > > > Martin > > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/sa-update-tp27168813p27170015.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
