[BlueOnyx:20488] spamassassin and sa-updates

[Dirk Estenfeld]

Hello Michael,



I did some investigation and I think automatic sa-update for spamassassin is not running.



In /etc/cron.d/av-spam-sa-update you see

10 4 * * * root /usr/share/spamassassin/sa-update.cron 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/sa-update.log



ok.

Now I run



/usr/share/spamassassin/sa-update.cron

But the command prompt appears immediately and it seems that nothing run. Also files in /var/lib/spamassassin/ are old an sought_rules are missing.



I checked the script. In the first lines you see



unset SAUPDATE

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/sa-update ] && . /etc/sysconfig/sa-update

for daemon in spamd amavisd; do

    /sbin/pidof $daemon >& /dev/null

    [ $? -eq 0 ] && SAUPDATE=yes

done

[ -f /var/run/mimedefang.pid ] && SAUPDATE=yes



# Skip sa-update if daemon not detected

[ -z "$SAUPDATE" ] && exit 0



But if I try a manual



/sbin/pidof spamd

I get no answer.

So the scripts every time ends with



# Skip sa-update if daemon not detected

[ -z "$SAUPDATE" ] && exit 0



--> NO UPDATE



If I modify the file /etc/sysconfig/sa-update and remove the # before SAUPDATE=yes then update is running.

So please either modify the first lines in /usr/share/spamassassin/sa-update.cron or remove the # before SAUPDATE=yes in file /etc/sysconfig/sa-update by default.





Best regards,

Dirk





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Von: Blueonyx [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] Im Auftrag von Michael Stauber
Gesendet: Montag, 17. Oktober 2016 16:50
An: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
Betreff: [BlueOnyx:20162] Re: How is AV-Spam Module doing the geoip and sa-update updates?



Hi Dirk,



> question about actual AV-SPAM Module for Blueonyx 5209R.

> How are the updates for Geoip, spamassassin and clamav

> planned and configured after installing AV-SPAM at a server?

> Are there scripts for upates in place an run automatically?



There are cronjobs for SpamAssassin and Clam AV present:



SpamAssassin: /etc/cron.d/av-spam-sa-update



This updates the rule files bi-daily if I recall correctly.



Clam AV: /etc/cron.daily/freshclam



This performs a daily update of the virus definitions for Clam AV.

However: Clamd also does a check on startup and if it realizes it's

virus definitions are outdated, it'll force an update during restart of

the service. Likewise Spamd runs sa-update on first start, too, which

brings it up to date.



All other services either don't auto-update against third party

services, or use their own data-source which is generated off the stream

of incoming emails. Milter-Greylist for example uses it's own locally

stored DB3 database and Milter-GeoIP stores its data in MySQL.



So upon installation of the packages you don't have to configure

anything for these updates to be performed.



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With best regards



Michael Stauber

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