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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by hiram <hi...@yahoo.com> on 2008/04/11 23:56:24 UTC

Upgrading

Hi!

I'm currently using spam assassin 3.0.3 in a debian-sarge distribution. I'm
trying to upgrade from 3.0.3 to 3.2.4. Following the upgrading method
described in the wiki I type:
# apt-get install spamassassin
but I get:
spamassassin is already the newest version

What am I doing wrong? Do I need to upgrade perl as well?

Many thanks beforehand,

Hiram

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Re: Upgrading

Posted by Jari Fredriksson <ja...@iki.fi>.

> Hi Jim!
> 
> Yep, that's exactly what I meant, I change to directory
> "/etc/init.d/" and from the root shell prompt "#" I write:
> spamassassin restart
> But it seems that it wants to process the file "restart",
> instead of understanding the option restart.
> 
> Thanks for your answer,
> 
> /Hiram
> 

Linux shell does not run commands from the current directory, but from that PATH environment variable, which does not have current directory in it.

So your command will start /usr/bin/spamassassin and not the /etc/init.d/spamassassin

/usr/bin/spamassassin is the scanner for spam, and it tries to open the file given to it as a parameter, in your case: "restart". As there is no file "restart" in your current directory, it complains.

You have to command "/etc/init.d/spammassassin restart" and there is no point on changing to that directory beforehand.

If you have a RedHat or SuSE based Linux distro, you can also use the "service" command. "service spamassassin restart"

Re: Upgrading

Posted by Martin Gregorie <ma...@gregorie.org>.

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 09:49, hiram wrote:
> Hi Jim!
> 
> Yep, that's exactly what I meant, I change to directory "/etc/init.d/" and
> from the root shell prompt "#" I write:
> spamassassin restart
> But it seems that it wants to process the file "restart", instead of
> understanding the option restart.
> 
You should be using the command

	service spamassassin restart

Root can run "service" from any current working directory. If you read
the /etc/init.d/spamassassin script you'll see that it expects am
argument telling it whether you want to start/stop/restart spamassassin
or to check its running status.

Martin

Re: Upgrading

Posted by SM <sm...@resistor.net>.

At 13:59 12-04-2008, Grant Peel wrote:
>so up to this point, I have been cpoying the contents of 
>"/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001008/updates_spamassassin_org" to "
>/usr/local/share/spamassassin"
>
>Based on what you guys are telling me, I bet there is some 
>configuration knob somewhere (to forgo the copying bit) that I am 
>missing .... would anyone like to take the time to explain?

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

Regards,
-sm

Re: Upgrading

Posted by Grant Peel <gp...@thenetnow.com>.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Funk" <db...@engineering.uiowa.edu>
To: "hiram" <hi...@yahoo.com>
Cc: <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Upgrading


> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, hiram wrote:
> /Hiram,
> If you are going to administer a Unix system you need to know the basics
> of  paths and shells. If you look -CLOSELY- at what Jim wrote you will
> see that it is not the same as what you did.
>
> You did:
>   spamassassin restart
>
> Jim said:
>   ./spamassassin restart
>
> Note that "./" at the beginning of the command that Jim told you to use.
> If you do not understand the importance of that "./" then you need to do
> some reading to learn about it or you will have problems with more than
> just Spamassasin.
>
> When first encountering Unix little details like that one are easy to 
> overlook and and get confusing unexpected results. Once you learn those
> important basic concepts life is easier.
>
> Good luck and understanding.
>
>
>> Hi Jim!
>>
>> Yep, that's exactly what I meant, I change to directory "/etc/init.d/" 
>> and
>> from the root shell prompt "#" I write:
>> spamassassin restart
>> But it seems that it wants to process the file "restart", instead of
>> understanding the option restart.
>>
>> Thanks for your answer,
>>
>> /Hiram
>>
>>
>> Jim Knuth wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 12.04.2008 0:41 Uhr, schrieb hiram:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> It's Hiram again. I've updated the "local.cf" file and I'm trying to
>>>> restart
>>>> spam assassin.
>>>> I write:
>>>> /etc/init.d/# spamassassin restart
>>>> But I get:
>>>> Unable to open restart: No such file or directory
>>>>
> [snip..]
>>> so
>>>
>>> /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart
>>>
>>> or so
>>>
>>> cd /etc/init.d/
>>>
>>> ./spamassassin restart
>>>
>>> Linux basics. ;)
>
> -- 
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> <dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu>        College of Engineering
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> Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin            Iowa City, IA 52242-1527
> #include <std_disclaimer.h>
> Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{
>
>


Wow, daily eh!

OK, so here is the thing....

my rules (on FreeBSD 6.3) are kept in

/usr/local/share/spamassassin

when I ran the sa-update, it put them in

/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001008/updates_spamassassin_org

so up to this point, I have been cpoying the contents of 
"/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001008/updates_spamassassin_org" to "
/usr/local/share/spamassassin"

Based on what you guys are telling me, I bet there is some configuration 
knob somewhere (to forgo the copying bit) that I am missing .... would 
anyone like to take the time to explain?

Writing the cron job to do the update is about 2 seconds work...

-Grant