Spamassassin exceeded time limit, not stopping spam

Logan Shaw lshaw at emitinc.com
Mon May 8 20:05:14 IST 2006


On Mon, 8 May 2006, James Gray wrote:
> spamassassin -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --lint -D 2>&1 |
> less
>
> (all on one line).  Watch the shell redirection (2>&1) - as written above
> will probably bork on standard Bourne shells ("sh") but should work fin in
> bash/zsh.

The "2>&1" syntax is a standard Bourne shell ("sh") thing
and has been around since long before bash and zsh existed,
and maybe even before ksh existed.

   - Logan


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