Topic: email to admin on server " etc/cron.daily/zz-sa_restart"

[purvis]

can somebody tell me what this email message below means and how to resolve it.


i saw where somebody posted this in dutch but there was no answer and i would not of understood it anyway.
hummm, Not to insult anybody, but how many dutchman do not speak english anyways?

thanks
paul


email contents:

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Subject:     Cron <root@server0> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/zz-sa_restart:

find: /var/lib/spamassassin/3.*: No such file or directory

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[purvis]

i did a update today from the server-manager panel today just now, maybe that will correct it.

[purvis]

the update did not remove the problem

[Stefano]

can somebody tell me what this email message below means and how to resolve it.

as you can read every time you write a post, "Don't report problems here"

please open a bug in bugzilla, thank you

Stefano

[cactus]

hummm, Not to insult anybody, but how many dutchman do not speak english anyways?

There are enough that have dificulties expressing themselves in English, let alone in written English. But in general most Dutch speak at least a little English.

You could use google to translate or give me a pointer to the post so I could translate it for you (as I am a native Dutch speaker).

[purvis]

thanks cactus for the offer but i made a change that might do no harm

i made a change in the cron program "zz-sa_restart" located in "/etc/cron.daily" directory

it was a simple script file
basically i removed all the lines except one few lines that checked for a exiting file "/service/spamd" then runs "sv t /service/spamd"

i believe that just restarts the spamassassin program at midnight and i did not find that should do any harm.
 

paul

[cactus]

I just had a look at it again and it is a script coming from the base installation:

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[root@smetest ~]# rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/zz-sa_restart
smeserver-spamassassin-2.0.0-1.el4.sme
[root@smetest ~]#
I am wondering why you need modifications to it, it seems to do no harm in it's default state either. AFAIK not finding anything in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.* might mean spamassasin is not correctly installed as /var/lib/spamassassin is provided by spamassassin and is used to store spamassasin updates downloaded by sa-update:

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[root@smetest ~]# rpm -qf /var/lib/spamassassin/
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
spamassassin-3.2.5-48.el4
[root@smetest ~]#
sa-update in turn is invoked by a cron job /etc/cron.daily/sa_update which is also coming from the spamassassin package.

I think you should try and revert your changes as obviously something else seems wrong and you are only suppressing the symptoms at the moment.

If you are sure the errors are not caused by any manual changes to your system earlier you might consider raising a bug in the bugtracker so we can try and determine what might be the cause of this.

[purvis]

thank you for your help catcus, i know it has taken you time and i appreciate it.
I am only using the email server very lightly at the time while i get the email system under control but i wish to make it our standard email server.
It is currently being used as file server with just my emailing activities.

thank you for the heads up cactus

i did not edit sa-update
paul

[cactus]

Reply because it is a core package your modifications will most likely be overwritten the next time the owning package is updated.