SpamAssassin.cache.db Question.

[Julian Field]

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On 1 Feb 2006, at 13:14, Michael H. Martel wrote:

> --On February 1, 2006 7:32:31 AM -0500 Xterm1 <xterm1 at Tatorz.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> 	Reason I ask is, the new setting for the db file for spamassassin
>> is here.. /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db .

Yes, if you use tmpfs for the directory then it will get lost at  
reboot. Its contents will be rebuilt in the first few minutes of  
operation anyway, so it's no great loss.

And forcing you to start afresh once every few months when your  
server is rebooted forces any fragmentation issues in the database  
file to be scrapped. So it's actually quite a good idea.

>
> Yup. What are you looking for for comments ?  Julian commented on  
> this before.  He had to put it somewhere that he knew MailScanner  
> would be able to write to.
>
> I'm sure there's a configuration setting to change where it lives.

Yes, there is. You could easily move it to /var/tmp if you prefer.

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