MCP broke after upgrade

[Renee Gehlbach]

Julian Field wrote:
>
>
> Renee Gehlbach wrote:
>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>> spamassassin -p /usr/local/etc/Mailscanner/mcp --lint -D
>>> If that doesn't say the rules are being read in, then it's not a 
>>> MailScanner problem. You need to get that to read the rules, and 
>>> admit to it, first.
>> I am unsure whether had just previously overlooked it, or whether I 
>> have changed a setting which changed the output since I last 
>> carefully read that output, but current output from spamassassin -p 
>> /usr/local/etc/Mailscanner/mcp --lint -D does include:
>> [6916] dbg: config: read file 
>> /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf
>> [6916] dbg: config: using "/usr/local/etc/MailScanner/mcp/" for user 
>> prefs file
>> [6916] dbg: config: read file 
>> /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/mcp//10_example.cf
>> [6916] dbg: config: read file 
>> /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/mcp//bad.words.body.cf
>> [6916] dbg: config: read file 
>> /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/mcp//bad.words.from.cf
>> [6916] dbg: config: read file 
>> /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/mcp//bad.words.subject.cf
> That's a good start. Now, if you use "Run As User", then su to the 
> user you have set there, and run the command again. Can it still read 
> the files?
>
> Do the "last accessed" (ls -lu) date stamps on the cf files change 
> when you start up MailScanner and push a message through it? Best way 
> to test it is to do something like this:
>    cd /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/mcp
>    ls -lu
>    sleep 60 # (or just wait a minute or 2, go get a cup of coffee)
>    MailScanner --debug --debug-sa
>    ls -lu
> and see if the times have changed on the files. If they haven't 
> changed, then it's never seeing your cf files for some reason, and 
> that's where you should start looking. If they have changed, then it's 
> reading them but not triggering the rules or adding up the scores or 
> something like that. This is all fairly basic diagnostic stuff which 
> you could do with learning :-) so hopefully you'll learn a few tricks 
> from this analysis as you go along. :-)
>
> Jules
>
I do not use "Run as User".  MailScanner runs as root, and yes root has 
access to those files & directories =)  The access times do change on 
the files.  I do have "Detailed MCP Report" set to yes, so we should see 
if a rule is triggered, and nothing is showing as being triggered.  This 
includes the sample rules in 10_example.cf

Thanks,
Renee