Installation question

[Idan Plotnik <id...@securenet.co.il>]

Hi All,

I have beeing installed spamassassin-2.63 (tar distribution) on RedHat9.

I made these operations:
1. perl Mailfile.PL
2. make test
3. make install

And everything was going smooth.
But after reboot I see that I don't have spamassassin process and in the
mailog file I don't see that the spamassassin is working.

My question is:
Do I need a dedicated service like I have for MailScanner or Sendmail ?
If so, why the installation process didn't create it automatically ?
And if I need this service how can I create it ?

Thanks a lot.

Re: Installation question

[Martin Hepworth <ma...@solid-state-logic.com>]

Idan

OK, you've got SA installed. Have you installed the prequistes 
(Net::DNS, berkely DB modules)?

If you're using MailScanner, then you'll have to turn spamassassin on in 
the MailScanner.conf file.

As to why is doesn't do all this automatically - well there are a 
thousand ways of doing email on *nix, and it would be very hard to cover 
all the options. So you do it manually.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Idan Plotnik wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have beeing installed spamassassin-2.63 (tar distribution) on RedHat9.
> 
> I made these operations:
> 1. perl Mailfile.PL
> 2. make test
> 3. make install
> 
> And everything was going smooth.
> But after reboot I see that I don't have spamassassin process and in the
> mailog file I don't see that the spamassassin is working.
> 
> My question is:
> Do I need a dedicated service like I have for MailScanner or Sendmail ?
> If so, why the installation process didn't create it automatically ?
> And if I need this service how can I create it ?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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