backhair, confused... SOLVED

[Gerry Doris]

> Gang,
>    Discovered the problem after a good lunch and more staring at
> debug output.  I had for settings:
>
> SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir = /etc/mail/spamassassin
> SpamAssassin Local Rules Dir =
> SpamAssassin Default Rules Dir =
>
> and got debug output of:
>
> debug: using "/opt/perl5/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir
> debug: using "/opt/perl5/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir
>
> Wrong!  My perl is installed in /opt/perl5, dunno where these pathes
> came from.  Changed the two blank config settings above to
> "/etc/mail/spamassassin" and the debug output changed to:
>
> debug: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for default rules dir
> debug: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir
>
> and now backhair/bigevil/antidrug are being used by SA.  Problem
> solved, but I don't know why MS was picking up my perl install path
> for blank rules directories.
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College

If you're not already using the "rules_du_jour" script I highly recommend
it.  The various rules change regularly as well as the script.  Running it
as a cron job will ensure you're always current.

Gerry