[Mimedefang] sa-update

Ron Wilhoite ronw at bals.org
Sun Apr 23 09:03:11 EDT 2006


Jonas Eckerman wrote:
> Nels Lindquist wrote:
>>>> might try running sa-update.  I was pleasantly surprised to see a 
> 
>> Hm... on second glance, it would appear that SA called via MD isn't 
>> picking up the extra rules--my testing was done with command-line 
>> spamassassin.
> 
> U just checked into this.
> 
> By default, sa-update puts the new rukes in 
> /var/lib/spamassassin/<version>.
> 
> Both spamd and spamassassin (in my ports installation on FreeBSD) sets 
> the parameter LOCAL_STATE_DIR to '/var/lib' when constructing a new 
> Mail::SpamAssassin.
> 
> mimedefang.pl oth doesn't set LOCAL_STATE_DIR at all, wich is probably 
> why Mail::SpamAssassin doesn't find the new rules.
> 

Jonas,

Your patch is working here (MD and SA from ports on FreeBSD). Without 
the patch I also was not picking up, for example, the DRUGS_HDIA test 
from 80_additional.cf in the /var/lib directory.

Thanks.

Ron Wilhoite



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