sa-update question

Jay Chandler lists at sequestered.net
Thu Sep 27 21:33:30 IST 2007


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?


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Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ
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