bigevil usage... Confused - Solution

[Rose, Bobby]

Search the list.  I posted a fixed to MailScanner to get it to read all
SA cf files in the site-wide folders.  The problem is that SA is
configured to call a specific cf file and so that is all it calls.  The
fix is to have modify the SA.pm and add the site_rules_filename option
so that when MailScanner creates the new SA object it will use both the
cf file specified in the Mailscanner.conf and the SA site-wide dir.

I posted the change in the hopes that Julian would add it to the next
release but I don't think he or anyone else realizsed what I was talking
about when I posted the initial problem.  I'd provide a diff but I
already got rid of the original.  But here's the line I added to my
SA.pm.

Before
    $settings{dont_copy_prefs} = 1; # Removes need for home directory
    $prefs = MailScanner::Config::Value('spamassassinprefsfile');
After
    $settings{dont_copy_prefs} = 1; # Removes need for home directory
    $settings{site_rules_filename} = "/etc/mail/spamassassin";
    $prefs = MailScanner::Config::Value('spamassassinprefsfile');

-=Bobby


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of bnixon
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 10:26 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: bigevil usage... confused

I have several .cf files in /etc/mail/spamassassin ?(my default site
location) all of which work. A good test would be to put a typo in the
bigevil.cf file and run   spamassassin --lint -D   and watch for errors.

It looks to me that the lint command you are running is forcing
spamassassin to use the mailscanner prefs file as its only rule file.
Spamassassin will read any .cf file in the site location by default but
your debug command is not letting it look there -

bn

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of bnixon
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 8:25 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: bigevil usage... confused

Put it in /etc/mail/spamassassin/

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Jeff A. Earickson
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:09 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: bigevil usage... confused

Gang,
   I've been following the "bigevil.cf" thread...  I downloaded it and
put it into /etc/mail/spamassassin, then did

spamassassin -D -p /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --lint

and saw:

debug: using "/opt/perl5/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir
debug: using "/etc/opt/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir
debug: using "/home/admin/jaearick/.spamassassin" for user state dir
debug: using "/opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf" for user
prefs file

with *no* reference to bigevil.cf anywhere in the output.

Hmmm...  I looked in /etc/opt/mail/spamassassin and found another
local.cf file.  So I blew away this directory and made a symlink for
this dir pointing to /etc/mail/spamassassin.  This directory contains a
symlink for local.cf, which points to
/opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf

Tried the lint run again, still no reference to bigevil.cf in the
output.
Should I see one?  What have I snarled up here?  How to see if bigevil
is getting used (no references to BigEvilList in the SA syslogging
either).  Help.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

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