On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:40:33 +0100 John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > We are running SpamAssassin 3.3.2 on a CentOS 5.9 server. sa-update > runs via a daily cron job, and we have modified that to run > sa-compile as well. However, there are some questions: > > sa-compile is run without any options. So what I am unsure of is > whether our local rules (in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local-spam.cf) are > compiled as well or not?
They are for me, but it's easy enough to test. Find a few *simple* local body rules and grep for them under the "compiled" directory. > The man page for sa-compile says that the '--siteconfigpath' option > defaults to /etc/mail/spamassassin which I assume implies that our > local rules would be compiled? > > If they are, and we want to change our local rules, then I assume we > would have to re-compile all the rules before restarting SpamAssassin? That's the received wisdom, but I've never seen a definitive reason why. Compiled rules are intended to co-exit with non-compiled rules, and from my limited testing, rules behave correctly when they are added, removed or modified without recompiling. However I have seen one case where a rule wasn't working properly and was apparently fixed by a recompile, but I suspect that was a specific bug. Personally, it wouldn't bother me to have compilation deferred for a few hours.
