Re: [sysadmins] Mailing list (lack of) spam filtering

[Scrappy <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>]

Will look at sa-update when I get online in an hour or so ...

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On 22-Jan-09, at 16:30, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>  
wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> > > a pretty simple question whould be to check if we are also running  
> > > the latest *rulesets* for spamassassin (the are providing updated  
> > > rulesets every few weeks which need to be installed using sa- 
> > > update/sa-compile). I could also provide a simple nagios plugin  
> > > for checking this ...
> > Simple answer: yes, I believe so ... part of the docs I went  
> > through for setting up Spamassassin was to setup a cron job:
> > 01 00 * * * /usr/local/bin/rules_du_jour
> > which I believe(d) was supposed to do this update daily ...
> > ... but, that said, I didn't realize there was a nagios plug in for  
> > this, but now that you mention it, I just looked at ports and see  
> > it ... let me get it installed and added to my internal monitoring,  
> > and will ping you if I have any questions about setting it up ...
>
> well rules_du_jour is deprecated for a while now. sa-update is by  
> default using the official SA-update channel (which is more like a  
> virus pattern update really) and can support other sources as well.
> The Plugin I was talking about is specifically checking for new  
> available patterns not if SA is up & running btw.
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> Stefan
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