SpamAssassin troubles

[HetIsLarsje]

Hi all,

To fight the spam hitting our server, I started to work with the Rules Du Jour for SpamAssassin. All seems perfectly fine, but for one thing:
- I cannot get the 'lint' command running...
I only get 'command not found'. Or in other words, where does Plesk hide the corresponding 'executable' for SpamAssassin ( and the lint command) on a FreeBSD machine and PLESK? How do you restart SpamAssassin?

I'm well aware that it should be a simple answer, but I cannot find it on the forum or elsewhere...

It concerns Plesk 7.5 Reloaded on FreeBSD 4.11. Rules Du Jour are/is? installed following Rules Du Jour website

My config file reads:
SA_DIR="/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/etc/mail/spamassassin"
MAIL_ADDRESS="[email protected]"
SA_RESTART="/usr/local/psa/rc.d/psa-spamassassin restart"

TRUSTED_RULESETS="***"

Thanks for any help.

 

[eilko]

type the following on command line

whereis spamassassin

this will give you the path to the binary.

 

[jspilon]

whereis doesnt always return something

you may want to do this

# find / -iname spamassassin

 

[HetIsLarsje]

Yeah, tried that

Thanks for the answers.

I already tried to find spamassassin:

admin@server$ whereis spamassassin
Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/X11R6/man!
spamassassin:

admin@server$ locate spamassassin
/root/.spamassassin
/usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/domains/mail/spamassassin.php3
/usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/domains/mail/spamassassin_train.php3
/usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/server/spamassassin.php
/usr/local/psa/admin/plib/api-cli/spamassassin.php
/usr/local/psa/admin/plib/templates/spamassassin.tpl
/usr/local/psa/admin/plib/templates/spamassassintrain.tpl
/usr/local/psa/admin/plib/templates/spamassassinuser.tpl
/usr/local/psa/bin/spamassassin.sh
/usr/local/psa/man/man1/spamassassin.1
/usr/local/psa/rc.d/psa-spamassassin
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/bin
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/bin/sa-learn
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/bin/spamassassin
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/bin/spamc
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/bin/spamd
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/etc
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/etc/mail
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/etc/mail/spamassassin
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/rules_du_jour
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/lib
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/lib/perl5
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/lib/perl5/man
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/lib/perl5/man/man1
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/lib/perl5/man/man1/spammng.1.gz
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/share
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/share/spamassassin
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/share/spamassassin/languages
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/share/spamassassin/triplets.txt
/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/share/spamassassin/user_prefs.template
/usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/files/patch-spamassassin.raw
/usr/ports/mail/qmail-scanner/files/patch-sub-spamassassin.pl

A very interesting (and long) list, however, anything I try just gives a 'command not found'. Both as admin and as root, using spamassassin, spamd, psa-spamassassin, etc.

Well, I'll try and look at the installation itself, there also seems to be a problem with adding domains to the whitelist via the Plesk interface. It stops spamassassin. Oh well, something to work on... Too bad the documentation is so... basic.

I'll get back to you later.

 

[HetIsLarsje]

Just for information some of the things I did to get it to work (yes, it does work now!).

1. There is a known problem with the Plesk 7.5 interface and Spamassassin. You have to upgrade to Plesk 8 to solve it.

2. Note to self: If you want to run an executable file from within its folder, you need to run it via ./spamassassin. *sigh* Stupid beginners-error. It solves the 'command not found' very nicely...

3. A symlink is placed pointing from /usr/share/spamassassin/ to /usr/local/psa/spamassassin/share/spamassassin/

The new RulesDuJour configuration script:

SA_DIR?="/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/etc/mail/spamassassin"
MAIL_ADDRESS?="[email protected]"
SA_RESTART?="/usr/local/psa/rc.d/psa-spamassassin restart"
SA_LINT?="/usr/local/psa/spamassassin/bin/spamassassin -D --lint"

Anyway, thanks all for helping out. You live and learn...