-- Greg
> -----Original Message----- > From: dar...@chaosreigns.com [mailto:dar...@chaosreigns.com] > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 12:42 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Dumb questions > > 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. It's in usr/share/spamassassin > 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. I'm looking at some instructions for updating Apple 10.4 and 10.5 (http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/61/41/). I'm assuming the best course of action is to just go ahead and follow these instructions and install from the source files. > 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- > beginn...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15714.html Yeah, I've seen the instructions at http://www.stupidfool.org/docs/sa.html. Problem is that everything after step 3 looks to me like it's for setting up the interface between the server and SpamAssassin, which I don't need. I just need to update the SA core. I presume the perl stuff is all there unless there are requirements for more recent versions of perl, cpan, or whatever and I have no idea how you determine which version of those modules is currently running. Thanks for your patience and tips to this point. -- Greg Lentz
