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Re: Custom rules working, but not sa-updates

From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea <spamassassin(at)dostech.ca>
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 14:17:57 EDT

Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 08:35 -0500, Andy Norris wrote:

>>  So a down and  
>> dirty approach I took was writing a crop job that removes that  
>> directory just before running sa-update.

>
> So, you delete it every time, even when there are no updates? And since
> updates occur about once or twice a month, you are downloading the same
> stuff over and over. Plus you are missing rules at certain points of
> the cycle....

Is this a widespread practice? It explains why I see *lots* of IPs downloading the same versions of the same rulesets at the same time(s) every single day.

Daryl Received on Tue Oct 30 14:19:08 2007

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