On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:30:40 -0400 Bowie Bailey <bowie_bai...@buc.com> wrote:
> 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. > Would it not be simpler just to do something like this grep -E "^score" /var/db/spamassassin/*/sought_rules_yerp_org/20_sought_fraud.cf > /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/sought_fraud_scores.cf or simply paste the scores into local.cf
