.cf files not being read

[Henry Leparskas <hl...@uwo.ca>]

I too am a newbie and find that any of the '.cf' files from SARE I place in
/etc/mail/spamassassin are not being read. They are owned by root and have 644
permissions. That should be readable by everyone.

Last night I got 175 spams caught with score >4.5. Yet, not a single one showed
any trace of using BigEvil etc. Not sure what is going on.

Re: .cf files not being read

[Henry Leparskas <hl...@astro.uwo.ca>]

I have upgraded razor2 and mimedefang. I not longer get the razor2 errors,
and not more 'spamassassin --lint' errors.
Yahoo. The debug log shows that it is going out to the razor sites.
I'll double check on the reading of .cf files.

Thanks for helping me get this going!

Re: .cf files not being read

[Henry Leparskas <hl...@astro.uwo.ca>]

Matt, I agree. It was silly to ignore it.
I'll be upgrading both mimedefang and razor today, and I won't ignore the
error!
Thanks

> At 11:13 AM 4/23/2004, Henry Leparskas wrote:
> >Yes, I have run 'spamassassin --lint'.
> >Sorry that I hadn't mentioned it.
> >
> >It yields one error, this razor2 error at line 108 or Socket.pm. I have
> >posted regarding this separately.
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RazorInsecureDependency
>
>
> >Will any error cause the breakdown of the reading of the '.cf' files?
>
> It shouldn't, but that is a somewhat severe error.
>

Re: .cf files not being read

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

At 11:13 AM 4/23/2004, Henry Leparskas wrote:
>Yes, I have run 'spamassassin --lint'.
>Sorry that I hadn't mentioned it.
>
>It yields one error, this razor2 error at line 108 or Socket.pm. I have
>posted regarding this separately.

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RazorInsecureDependency


>Will any error cause the breakdown of the reading of the '.cf' files?

It shouldn't, but that is a somewhat severe error. 

Re: .cf files not being read

[Henry Leparskas <hl...@astro.uwo.ca>]

Yes, I have run 'spamassassin --lint'.
Sorry that I hadn't mentioned it.

It yields one error, this razor2 error at line 108 or Socket.pm. I have
posted regarding this separately.

Will any error cause the breakdown of the reading of the '.cf' files?

Thanks,
	Henry


> At 10:58 AM 4/23/2004, Henry Leparskas wrote:
> >I too am a newbie and find that any of the '.cf' files from SARE I place in
> >/etc/mail/spamassassin are not being read. They are owned by root and have 644
> >permissions. That should be readable by everyone.
> >
> >Last night I got 175 spams caught with score >4.5. Yet, not a single one
> >showed
> >any trace of using BigEvil etc. Not sure what is going on.
>
> Have you run spamassassin --lint to make sure the downloaded files aren't
> corrupt?
>

Re: .cf files not being read

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

At 10:58 AM 4/23/2004, Henry Leparskas wrote:
>I too am a newbie and find that any of the '.cf' files from SARE I place in
>/etc/mail/spamassassin are not being read. They are owned by root and have 644
>permissions. That should be readable by everyone.
>
>Last night I got 175 spams caught with score >4.5. Yet, not a single one 
>showed
>any trace of using BigEvil etc. Not sure what is going on.

Have you run spamassassin --lint to make sure the downloaded files aren't 
corrupt? 

Re: .cf files not being read

[Tom Gwilt <tg...@suite224.net>]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Henry Leparskas wrote:

> I too am a newbie and find that any of the '.cf' files from SARE I place in
> /etc/mail/spamassassin are not being read. They are owned by root and have 644
> permissions. That should be readable by everyone.
> 
> Last night I got 175 spams caught with score >4.5. Yet, not a single one showed
> any trace of using BigEvil etc. Not sure what is going on.

As was previously stated, try running spamassassin --lint.

Every time I update one of the .cf files (either by hand or downloading 
antidrug.cf, etc.) I run the spamassassin --lint command prior to 
restarting spamd. If there are any errors in the config files, the --lint 
will show them on standard output, and you can massage as necessary.

I currently have the following files in my /etc/mail/spamassassin 
directory:

99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf
99_sare_adult.cf
99_sare_biz_market_learn_post25x.cf
99_sare_fraud_post25x.cf
99_sare_random.cf
99_sare_spoof.cf
antidrug.cf
backhair.cf
bayespoison.cf
chickenpox.cf
header_abuse.cf
local.cf
mr_wiggly.cf
oldcfstuff
spamcop_uri.cf
weeds.cf

They're all working according to the logfiles (when spamd is run with the 
-D switch).

Tom