DCC config and SA lint complaints

Ugo Bellavance ugob at camo-route.com
Mon Jul 3 22:52:39 IST 2006


Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Gang,
> 
> I googled for this one, lots of people ask, no answer found...
> I have the following in my spam.assassin.prefs.conf file, because
> I install DCC in /opt/dcc:
> 
> dcc_path  /opt/dcc/bin/dccproc
> dcc_home  /opt/dcc
> 
> If these two lines are there, spamassassin --lint chokes:
> 
> /opt/perl5/bin/spamassassin -p
> /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --lint
> [12758] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: dcc_path
> /opt/dcc/bin/dccproc
> [12758] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: dcc_home /opt/dcc
> [12758] warn: lint: 2 issues detected, please rerun with debug enabled
> for more information
> 
> If the lines are not there, then DCC does not get used.
> I did a workaround by creating a symlink in /usr/bin for
> dccproc.  The problem with this is that SA redirects its message
> output to dccproc instead of using the dccifd daemon (because SA
> can't find the dccifd socket if dcc_home is not specified).
> 
> How do I use the two dcc specifiers for Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC
> (see
> http://www.annocpan.org/~FELICITY/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.1/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/DCC.pm)
> without having SA lint complain???
> 
> I ran into this when I installed Rules Du Jour today.  Rules Du Jour
> won't work if SA doesn't pass the lint test.   Aaaarrgh.

Look at your .pre files.  You probably didn't comment out the line that
enables dcc.


Regards,

> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College



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