sa-update

[brodos <gt...@start.no>]

Hi
I just ran a sa-update -D as root.
It seems that the rules are updated automatically without running sa-update,
and I dont have a cron job for this.
I havent run sa-update for months and when I look into
/var/lib/spamassassin.... it says the files were modyfied for 14 days ago.
Is there any automatically update settings that I am not aware of? If so in
what file is this specifyed? (local.cf??)

Thanks!!

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Re: sa-update

[brodos <gt...@start.no>]

Thanks!!!
I am running debian lenny.
In my /etc/cron.daily it is a script called "spamassassin"
I guess it is this script that runs the updates.


Thans for the help!!




Martin Gregorie-2 wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 14:00 -0800, brodos wrote:
> 
>> I just ran a sa-update -D as root.
>> It seems that the rules are updated automatically without running
>> sa-update,
>> and I dont have a cron job for this.
>> I havent run sa-update for months and when I look into
>> /var/lib/spamassassin.... it says the files were modyfied for 14 days
>> ago.
>> Is there any automatically update settings that I am not aware of? If so
>> in
>> what file is this specifyed? (local.cf??)
>> 
> You don't say what OS/distro you're using, but have you looked at the
> contents of the /etc/cron* directories? 
> 
> I run Fedora 10. My copy of SA is the standard Fedora package for that
> distro. As part of its normal SA install it adds a cron job called
> sa_update to /etc/cron.daily, where it runs silently every night. My
> last update was the rush job to fix the 2010 problem on the 2nd of
> Jan..... 
> 
> My guess is that your SA installation has done something very similar.
> 
> FWIW I replaced the standard setup with a modified script (posted here a
> few days back) that e-mails me with what it did each run. I run this on
> a weekly basis and, in consequence, know when the cron job has run and
> what it did.
> 
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: sa-update

[Martin Gregorie <ma...@gregorie.org>]

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 14:00 -0800, brodos wrote:

> I just ran a sa-update -D as root.
> It seems that the rules are updated automatically without running sa-update,
> and I dont have a cron job for this.
> I havent run sa-update for months and when I look into
> /var/lib/spamassassin.... it says the files were modyfied for 14 days ago.
> Is there any automatically update settings that I am not aware of? If so in
> what file is this specifyed? (local.cf??)
> 
You don't say what OS/distro you're using, but have you looked at the
contents of the /etc/cron* directories? 

I run Fedora 10. My copy of SA is the standard Fedora package for that
distro. As part of its normal SA install it adds a cron job called
sa_update to /etc/cron.daily, where it runs silently every night. My
last update was the rush job to fix the 2010 problem on the 2nd of
Jan..... 

My guess is that your SA installation has done something very similar.

FWIW I replaced the standard setup with a modified script (posted here a
few days back) that e-mails me with what it did each run. I run this on
a weekly basis and, in consequence, know when the cron job has run and
what it did.


Martin

Re: sa-update

[RW <rw...@googlemail.com>]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:00:38 -0800 (PST)
brodos <gt...@start.no> wrote:

> 
> Hi
> I just ran a sa-update -D as root.
> It seems that the rules are updated automatically without running
> sa-update, and I dont have a cron job for this.
> I havent run sa-update for months and when I look into
> /var/lib/spamassassin.... it says the files were modyfied for 14 days
> ago. Is there any automatically update settings that I am not aware
> of? If so in what file is this specifyed? (local.cf??)

It will be OS specific, probably some kind of daily script. Use your
package tools to see which files were installed by the SA package.