SpamAssassin Cron Job

[eJM]

I would like to set up a cron job to update SpamAssassin every day. Can someone explain how to do that? I need the commands, etc.

Thanks,

Jim

 

[khiltd]

Google found about 553,000 cron job tutorials for me, and SpamAssassin has a fairly navigable FAQ with examples: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates

First one there should do what you want.

 

[eJM]

Thank you.

Weeding through 553,000 tutorials to find one that would work on the server I use was not nearly as appealing as asking here - where everyone in this forum uses similar technology as I do. I figured if someone here had successfully set up a cron job to do just what I want to do, they might not mind sharing it.

The link you provided offered this example that you said should do what I want:

sa-update && service spamassassin restart

I set it up to run once a day. I guess I'll know if it fails or succeeds sometime around 3am tonight.

Thanks for your help.

Jim

 

[khiltd]

Thank you.

Weeding through 553,000 tutorials to find one that would work on the server I use was not nearly as appealing as asking here - where everyone in this forum uses similar technology as I do.

There is virtually no variation in modern cron implementations across platforms. In this regard, everyone uses the same technology you do.

 

[eJM]

The cron job I set up processed this morning. The result was emailed to me:

mkdir /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys: Permission denied at /usr/bin/sa-update line 1223

Any suggestions?

Jim

 

[khiltd]

You'll either need to adjust the permissions on that directory or run the job as root.

 

[eJM]

Sorry, that's over my head.

 

[eJM]

I have put in 2 separate support tickets relating to this. I continue to get errors that refer to permissions. The last error came last night:

gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir `/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys'
gpg: failed to create temporary file `/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys/.#lk0xb8006258.loomis.enterprisejm.net.28092': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource `/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys/secring.gpg': general error
gpg: failed to create temporary file `/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys/.#lk0xb8006258.loomis.enterprisejm.net.28092': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource `/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys/pubring.gpg': general error
gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading `/usr/share/spamassassin/sa-update-pubkey.txt': general error
gpg: import from `/usr/share/spamassassin/sa-update-pubkey.txt' failed: general error

I'm new to all this. I don't know where or how to set permissions on a folder. I know how to do that via my FTP client (WS_FTP Pro), but I have been unable to set up access deeper than /home/ejm/

Jim