sa-update

[tictacbum]

Hi,
how can I update spamassassin rules on zimbra?

I found /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/bin/sa-update but it updates directory /var/spamassassin/ when spamassassin uses /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin/

I am using Zimbra 6.0.9

[ikt]

Cheers, I'd been looking for where spamassassin is for ages!

In regards to your issue, are you logged in as zimbra or are you using a root account or something else?

[tictacbum]

I found that dirs relating to spamassassin:
/opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin
/opt/zimbra/zimbramon/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin

and binaries under
/opt/zimbra/zimbramon/bin/

I login as root, but execute sa-update as zimbra

[ewilen]

If you haven't seen it: Updating Spamassassin In ZCS 7.1.2

[tictacbum]

thanks, that's what I was looking for.
now I'm updating spamassassin rules with that:

/opt/zimbra/zimbramon/bin/sa-update --updatedir /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin --allowplugins && /opt/zimbra/bin/zmamavisdctl restart

[nosilver4u]

When I run the command you listed via cron, it doesn't seem to do anything with amavisd. Nothing shows up in /var/log/zimbra.log about it starting up like it does when I run the command manually in a terminal.
So, to that end, I put it on a separate line, and just had it sleep a bit before running (to give the sa-update time to finish).
Here's what I get now:

Stopping amavisd... done.
Starting amavisd...failed.

Indeed, all messages after that get deferred into the queue, and I must run 'zmamavisdctl restart' manually to kick it back online. Any ideas?

[tictacbum]

sa-update only returns 0 if it updates the rules, so using && only restarts amavis if rules are updated. It avoids unnecessary restarts of amavisd
to make something appear on log you can use a script and redirect stdout to /var/log/sa-update.log when calling it at cron, for example

#!/bin/bash
source /opt/zimbra/.bashrc
/opt/zimbra/zimbramon/bin/sa-update --updatedir /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin --allowplugins
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "`date +"%b %d %X"`: Spamassassin rules updated, restarting amavis"
  /opt/zimbra/bin/zmamavisdctl restart
else
  echo "`date +"%b %d %X"`: Spamassassin rules already up to date"
fi

I don't know why your amavisd refuses to start, you should look at zimbra log for clues

[tictacbum]

I added "source /opt/zimbra/.bashrc" to above script to load zimbra paths, since zimbra was refusing to start due to missing perl modules