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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2008/04/24 18:47:30 UTC
Re: how to confirm that compiled rules are being used
try running with -D and look for the debug messages.
Chris Hoogendyk writes:
> No takers on this? So few using sa-compile? Nobody knows? Too obvious to
> bother answering?
>
>
> ---------------
>
> Chris Hoogendyk
>
> -
> O__ ---- Systems Administrator
> c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
> (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
> ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>
> <ho...@bio.umass.edu>
>
> ---------------
>
> Erd�s 4
>
>
>
>
> At 12:30PM EST on 23 April 2008 (right on 24 hours ago), Chris Hoogendyk
> wrote:
> > So, when I used sa-update to grab additional rule sets, I could tell
> > they were being used by scanning my mail logs for references to them.
> > Yup, they're hitting.
> >
> > Now, I have sa-compile implemented. I understand that spamassassin
> > automatically sees alternate rules and uses them rather than the base
> > distribution, and that it also should automatically see that there is
> > a compiled directory and so use it. But how do I really tell?
> >
> > Part of my reason for asking is just my skeptical tendencies, where I
> > have to confirm things to be satisfied. But, also, when I first ran
> > sa-compile, I ran it as root. Thus root owned the compile directories,
> > and with the strict umask we have (077) no one else could see the
> > directories. Therefore, spamassassin could not have been using them.
> > But there was no complaint. So, I've fixed that, and the compiled
> > stuff is all owned by the user that runs spamassassin. But there was
> > no complaint before, and no indication after.
> >
> > So, how does one confirm?
> >
> > I'm running 3.2.4 out of mimedefang 2.54 with Sendmail 8.14.2 on
> > Solaris 9 SPARC. My server is heavily used and I routinely see very
> > high load levels.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> > ---------------
> >
> > Chris Hoogendyk
> >
> > -
> > O__ ---- Systems Administrator
> > c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
> > (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
> > ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
> > <ho...@bio.umass.edu>
> >
> > ---------------
> > Erd�s 4
Re: how to confirm that compiled rules are being used
Posted by DAve <da...@pixelhammer.com>.
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
>
>
> Justin Mason wrote:
>> try running with -D and look for the debug messages.
>>
>
> That was a fast reply. ;-)
>
> I'm running spamassassin out of mimedefang with mimedefang multiplexor
> as a milter in sendmail. It's also a fairly busy mta and I'm generating
> rather large log files already, which, by policy, we are keeping for at
> least 2 years. So, ...
>
> First, is there another way to tell?
>
> Second, if not, in my situation, is there an option I could put in
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf ? And will that debug stuff all land in
> my mail.log? I guess I could turn it on for a couple of minutes and then
> turn it off. A tail on the mail.log would give me immediate indications
> of what was happening.
bash-2.05b# spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep compile
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Re: how to confirm that compiled rules are being used
Posted by Chris Hoogendyk <ho...@bio.umass.edu>.
Justin Mason wrote:
> try running with -D and look for the debug messages.
>
That was a fast reply. ;-)
I'm running spamassassin out of mimedefang with mimedefang multiplexor
as a milter in sendmail. It's also a fairly busy mta and I'm generating
rather large log files already, which, by policy, we are keeping for at
least 2 years. So, ...
First, is there another way to tell?
Second, if not, in my situation, is there an option I could put in
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf ? And will that debug stuff all land in
my mail.log? I guess I could turn it on for a couple of minutes and then
turn it off. A tail on the mail.log would give me immediate indications
of what was happening.
---------------
Chris Hoogendyk
-
O__ ---- Systems Administrator
c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
(*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
<ho...@bio.umass.edu>
---------------
Erdös 4
> Chris Hoogendyk writes:
>
>> No takers on this? So few using sa-compile? Nobody knows? Too obvious to
>> bother answering?
>>
>>
>> ---------------
>>
>> Chris Hoogendyk
>>
>> -
>> O__ ---- Systems Administrator
>> c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
>> (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
>> ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>>
>> <ho...@bio.umass.edu>
>>
>> ---------------
>>
>> Erdös 4
>>
>>
>>
>> At 12:30PM EST on 23 April 2008 (right on 24 hours ago), Chris Hoogendyk
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So, when I used sa-update to grab additional rule sets, I could tell
>>> they were being used by scanning my mail logs for references to them.
>>> Yup, they're hitting.
>>>
>>> Now, I have sa-compile implemented. I understand that spamassassin
>>> automatically sees alternate rules and uses them rather than the base
>>> distribution, and that it also should automatically see that there is
>>> a compiled directory and so use it. But how do I really tell?
>>>
>>> Part of my reason for asking is just my skeptical tendencies, where I
>>> have to confirm things to be satisfied. But, also, when I first ran
>>> sa-compile, I ran it as root. Thus root owned the compile directories,
>>> and with the strict umask we have (077) no one else could see the
>>> directories. Therefore, spamassassin could not have been using them.
>>> But there was no complaint. So, I've fixed that, and the compiled
>>> stuff is all owned by the user that runs spamassassin. But there was
>>> no complaint before, and no indication after.
>>>
>>> So, how does one confirm?
>>>
>>> I'm running 3.2.4 out of mimedefang 2.54 with Sendmail 8.14.2 on
>>> Solaris 9 SPARC. My server is heavily used and I routinely see very
>>> high load levels.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------
>>>
>>> Chris Hoogendyk
>>>
>>> -
>>> O__ ---- Systems Administrator
>>> c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
>>> (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>>> <ho...@bio.umass.edu>
>>>
>>> ---------------
>>> Erdös 4
>>>