On Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 22:46:29 +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
>On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 05:25:32PM -0500, Nick Templeton wrote:
>> Since when running spamd(8) in blacklisting mode requires
>> that spamd-setup(8) also be run with the "-b" option, should
>> /etc/rc (the system startup script) be modified with something
>> like I provide below?
>>
>> Index: rc
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/rc,v
>> retrieving revision 1.304
>> diff -u -r1.304 rc
>> --- rc 25 Apr 2007 14:12:05 -0000 1.304
>> +++ rc 18 May 2007 22:10:31 -0000
>> @@ -668,9 +668,10 @@
>> if [ X"${spamd_flags}" != X"NO" ]; then
>> if [ X"${spamd_black}" != X"NO" ]; then
>> spamd_flags="${spamd_flags} -b"
>> + spamd_setup_flags="-b"
>> fi
>> echo -n ' spamd'; eval /usr/libexec/spamd
>> ${spamd_flags}
>> - /usr/libexec/spamd-setup
>> + /usr/libexec/spamd-setup ${spamd_setup_flags}
>> if [ X"${spamd_black}" = X"NO" ]; then
>> echo -n ' spamlogd'
>> /usr/libexec/spamlogd ${spamlogd_flags}
>>
>
>why do you want to do this? spamd(8) says to use crontab.
Yes, but the default is once per hour. So without the -b flag to
spamd-setup in /etc/rc, the blacklisted hosts are not sent to the
<spamd> table in pf for quite some time.
I think the proposed patch makes sense.
Maurice
