sa-update question

[Anthony Peacock]

Jay Chandler wrote:
> Anthony Peacock wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
> 
>>
>> "# The rules created by the "sa-update" tool are searched for here.
>> # This directory contains the 3.001001/updates_spamassassin_org
>> # directory structure beneath it.
>> # Only un-comment this setting once you have proved that the sa-update
>> # cron job has run successfully and has created a directory structure 
>> under
>> # the spamassassin directory within this one and has put some *.cf 
>> files in
>> # there. Otherwise it will ignore all your current rules!
>> # The default location may be /var/opt on Solaris systems.
>> SpamAssassin Local State Dir = # /var/lib/spamassassin"
>>
>> Basically, SA on its own knows to use the newer rules in the 
>> /var/lib... hierachy over and above any others.  This initially caused 
>> problems in MailScanner, but Julian very quickly made MailScanner work 
>> by default in this setup.  Can't remember the version that this 
>> changed in, but it was a while ago.
> 
> Fantastic!
> 
> And even though there are several "version" directories underneath it, 
> it knows where to go?

Yup!  It goes to the one related to the version of SA running.

And as Scott said, it doesn't do any housekeeping, so you may want to 
delete older versions.

-- 
Anthony Peacock
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
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