Is razor working?

Martin Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Wed Nov 8 16:54:41 GMT 2006


Douglas Ward wrote:
> I have v310.pre and v312.pre installed in /etc/mail/spamassassin.  I 
> uncommented dcc, razor and pyzor.  This being a mandriva server I 
> installed all three using urpmi.  I did not install them using cpan.  
> Does that make a difference?  The razor config file does not point to 
> any spool directories.
> 
> On 11/8/06, *Martin Hepworth* <martinh at solidstatelogic.com 
> <mailto:martinh at solidstatelogic.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Douglas Ward wrote:
>      > I have fully configured MailScanner, spamassassin and razor
>     (among many
>      > other programs).  Everything is in full production.  I have
>     followed the
>      > documentation on razor.sourceforge.net
>     <http://razor.sourceforge.net> <http://razor.sourceforge.net>
>      > and everything seems to be working properly.  Now that I am scanning
>      > through the log files, I don't think MailScanner is using
>     razor.  Here
>      > are the stats of grep -c in /var/log/mail/info:
>      >
>      > PYZOR hits 729 times
>      > DCC hits 5450 times
>      > RAZOR hits 0 times
>      >
>      > This doesn't sound right.  I will list the relevant portion of
>      > spam.assassin.prefs.conf below:
>      >
>      > # paths to utilities
>      > pyzor_path /usr/bin/pyzor
>      > dcc_path /usr/bin/dccproc
>      > razor_path /usr/bin/razor-check
>      >
>      > Using default timeouts and none of the stop checks are
>     uncommented.  I
>      > specify the location of razor with the following command:
>      >
>      > razor_config /root/.razor
>      >
>      > Razor is writing to the log file properly but I don't think
>      > MailScanner/spamassassin uses it.  How can I make sure that it is
>     being
>      > used?  Thanks!
>      >
>      >
>     Douglas
> 
>     have you installed the plugins for Spamassassin?
>     /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.pre
> 
>     Also make sure the razor config points to a decent directory (ie outside
>     any of the spool areas.)
> 
>     --
>     Martin Hepworth
>     Senior Systems Administrator
>     Solid State Logic
>     Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> 
Doug

Do a spamassassin -D --lint and it should mention razor etc

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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