Re: Custom rules working, but not sa-updates

No, it was not a permissions issue. I'll get back to working on it soon, but, yes there were newer versions than what I was seeing on my server. There are so many posts about sa-update not working. I'm sure sa-update works, for some folks, but it wasn't for me, and I had to quit spending time on it.

Oh, and I meant "cron job"... not "crop job"... was typing on a tiny keyboard. Sorry.

Thanks,
Andy

At 01:09 PM 2007-10-30, Daniel J McDonald wrote:

>On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 08:35 -0500, Andy Norris wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't know if this is relevant for you or not, but on our mail
> > server I could not get sa-update to work, either. I noticed that if
> > the directory was not there, however, it would work.
>
>Sounds like a permissions issue.
>
> > 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....
>
> > I know this is going to be a
> > bit much for some folks on here to handle, but I had to get on with
> > life at some point!
>true, but you could just find the real problem (permissions) and fix it.
>
>--
>Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX
>Austin Energy
>http://www.austinenergy.com
Received on Tue Oct 30 14:36:08 2007