On 05/06, Greg Lentz wrote: > Backups of what? I would probably just make copies of the whatever > directories I was going to upgrade over in case I failed miserably.
Everything. You don't know where the stuff you're currently using is. Backups are good. > > > > 1. How can I determine where the running version of spamassassin > > > is > > > located? > > > > That's not a very easy question to answer, given all the possibilities > > of MTAs (mail server software) and path configurations. One of your best > > options may be to run something like: > > > > find / -name spamassassin > > > > Which should find any instance of spamassassin on your machine. > > This I actually had done. This is what is returned after I go into superuser > mode. > > /private/etc/mail/spamassassin Directory. > /usr/bin/spamassassin Binary. > /usr/local/bin/spamassassin Binary. > /usr/local/share/spamassassin Directory. > /usr/share/spamassasssin Directory. So it looks like you installed spamassassin to /usr/bin/ and /usr/local/bin/ This is why I hate installing stuff with anything but packages, because uninstalling is messy. > If I type ps -aux, I can see an entry for /usr/local/bin/spamd with some > paramaters after it and I see some spamd child entries as well.cd Good idea, that's the one you're using then. Well, probably. You could still have your MTA configured to run /usr/bin/spamassassin or something. > > /var/lib/spamassassin/ > > I don't have a lib directory in my var directory. Could be a peculiarity to > OS X, which doesn't always keep the Unix stuff in the same locations. Try searching for a file named 50_scores.cf. If you delete spamd, spamassassin, and spamc, from /usr/bin/ and /usr/local/bin/, and delete your rules from wherever 50_scores.cf is (I'm guessing that existed in 3.2.4), and install 3.3.1, you'll probably be good. It would probably be best if you could install SA with fink, but it looks like that still hasn't been ported. But doing some google searching for fink and spamassassin, I found: http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15714.html The instructions are pretty old, don't know how applicable they are now. There have been problems with 3.3.1 and recent versions of perl, which should be fixed in 3.3.2 which should be released any day now. -- "The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'." - Larry Hardiman http://www.ChaosReigns.com
