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

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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