On 8/11/2010 3:30 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> Right. And I'm checking for updates several times a day. If the >> updates channel is not keeping up with sought, I need to make sure I >> am running the rules from the dedicated channel and not the updates >> channel so I have the latest. > > The current situation is: automatic rule updates are only generated > when the corpa of recent messages used in the nightly masscheck is > sufficiently large (150k+ of both spam and ham, IIRC), and that's been > difficult to achieve for a while due to ham starvation. More > volunteers to perform nightly local masschecks of fresh ham corpora > and upload the results, or to maintain and upload non-private ham > corpora to the nightly masscheck server, would be most welcome! > > If you watch 72_scores.cf in SVN you can get an idea of when the last > automatic update occurred. > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/rulesrc/scores/72_scores.cf?view=log > > > Manual updates typically only occur for OMG! bugs or when the last > automatic update gets stale enough to be a problem. > > Moving the sought channel update to z_sought seems like a good idea to > me, perhaps Justin should do that at the root so that everybody gets > scores if they subscribe to the channel.
In case anyone else is following this... The sa-update process made things a bit more complex than simply renaming the file after updates. If that's all you do, then sa-update loses track of the file and will download a new copy on every run. What I had to do is this: 1) Rename the .cf file back to the original name so sa-update can find it 2) Run sa-update 3) Rename the .cf file to z_sought_rules_yerp_org.cf 4) Restart spamd You don't have to mess with the directory, just rename the main sought_rules_yerp_org.cf file. -- Bowie
