SpamAssassin TMP folder setting?

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Alex Neuman [mailto:alex at nkpanama.com] 
> Envoyé : 14 avril, 2004 13:50
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: SpamAssassin TMP folder setting?
> 
> 
> Why not mount /tmp as tmpfs? Just a thought...

Probably because other apps use /tmp to put temporary files that you don't want to have in RAM.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list 
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Brian Lewis
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:42 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: SpamAssassin TMP folder setting?
> 
> 
> I have created a TMPFS volume /tmp/mailscanner and have 
> routed the work
> directory settings in MailScanner to use this path.  I've 
> also modified the
> CLAMAV-wrapper to use this path as well for its 
> extraction/testing. The
> problem I see now is that SpamAssassin is constantly creating 
> copies of
> every email in the /tmp/ folder to run Pyzor/Razor2/DCC on 
> it, I can see
> this happening is the process list and see the files 
> created/removed if I
> constantly refresh /tmp/ Anyone know how I can have SpamAssassin use a
> different path for these files so I can route them onto the 
> TMPFS volume for
> better efficiency? I've looked over everything about the 
> SpamAssassin config
> files and can't find any such setting.  Maybe I can modify a 
> line in the
> spamassassin code?
>