[Bug 4238] New: spamd requires reboot to force re-reading of rules file?

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http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4238

           Summary: spamd requires reboot to force re-reading of rules file?
           Product: Spamassassin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P5
         Component: spamc/spamd
        AssignedTo: dev@spamassassin.apache.org
        ReportedBy: vlb@cfcl.com


I have been told, and the man page says, that all I need to do to cause spamd to
re-read the config file (/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf) is to restart or HUP
the daemon.

Several times now, my experience has shown that this is NOT enough.

I hup the daemon (all running instances) but it still shows no evidence of using
the new tests. Only after I restart the computer, ensurng the absolute
nunquestionable restart of the daemon, do the rules get used.

A few days ago I added the following rule:
header CF_DEAR_OCCUPANT         X-Procmail =~ /\[DEAR-OCCUPANT\]/i
score CF_DEAR_OCCUPANT          0.5
describe CF_DEAR_OCCUPANT       Not explicitly To (or Cc) me

the X-Procmail headers are addedby procmail before the 
:0fw 
| /usr/local/bin/spamc -s 256000 -t 60 

I have restarted the spamd processes with kill -HUP to their PIDs. I have seen
no evidence of the CF_DEAR_OCCUPANT tag in mail clearly marked with
X-Procmail: [DEAR-OCCUPANT]

Finally, this afternoon, I rebooted as an "experiment".

Almost the first piece of spam I received after the reboot had these headers:
To: james lewis <ji...@pjmathison.com>
Subject: Gov't Tech Spending
From: james lewis <ji...@pjmathison.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:27:14 -0500
X-Procmail: [DEAR-OCCUPANT]
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on cfcl.com
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=0.5 required=0.5 tests=CF_DEAR_OCCUPANT 
	autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2


I would really appreciate it if someone looked into this. I should not need to
reboot to force the daemon to use new tests in my .cf file.

The platform is FreeBSD 4.7 with Perl 5.8.5



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[Bug 4238] spamd requires reboot to force re-reading of rules file?

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http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4238


spamassassin-contrib@msquadrat.de changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE




------- Additional Comments From spamassassin-contrib@msquadrat.de  2005-04-02 02:45 -------
This is most probably a dup of bug 3577:  spamd drops too many privileges so  
reloading it via SIGHUP doesn't work.  This was fixed for 3.1.  
  
BTW:  You do not need to reboot your box, all you need to do is restarting 
spamd. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3577 ***



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