sa-update issue

Submitted by helpmin on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 15:50

I noticed the following issue (fresh vm 4.11 gpl install):

/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin:
channel: could not find working mirror, channel failed
sa-update failed for unknown reasons

Other virtualmin users seem to have the same issue

https://www.virtualmin.com/node/34130 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/etc-cron-daily-apt-fata... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2233556

But I couldn't find any solution. Just FYI.

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Submitted by andreychek on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 15:59

Howdy -- that actually sounds like a problem with SpamAssassin or the servers that host the SpamAssassin rules. That isn't something Virtualmin configures.

However, what are the contents of your "/usr/bin/sa-update" file? Could you either paste that in here, or attach it as a .txt file?

Submitted by helpmin on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 16:08

Here you go

PS I started the file manually (as root) and the update went through (just a problem with cron job?)

Submitted by andreychek on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 16:12

Oh nuts, I paste in the wrong filename.

I'm actually interested in the file "/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin".

Also, what are the contents of "/etc/default/spamassassin"?

Thanks!

Submitted by helpmin on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 16:25

Here you go :-)

Default:

CRON=1
PIDFILE=/var/run/spamd.pid
ENABLED=1
OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir"

Cron: see attachment

Submitted by andreychek on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 17:57

Thanks for the info! I did a little digging, and found a variety of other Ubuntu users experiencing this problem in 14.04.

Can you try the solution mentioned in this Ubuntu forum post here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2233556

It's sounding like a packaging bug in the Ubuntu SpamAssassin package though.

Submitted by helpmin on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 05:19

I tried this on the folder /var/lib/spamassassin/3.004000 a

and

su - debian-spamd -c "sa-update --gpghomedir /var/lib/spamassassin/sa-update-keys"

run successfully.

Although that's a little odd, since Debian (and Centos) has the same folder with the same permis and there is no problem.

There is a difference though. Debian runs the command without the --login parameter.

su debian-spamd -c "sa-update --gpghomedir /var/lib/spamassassin/sa-update-keys"

That could be the bug, but don't want to mess with that :-)

Submitted by helpmin on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 05:30

Thinking about it again ... Actually I don't think that "--login" is a bug.

I believe now it is a virtualmin bug. I guess sa-update is not supposed to be run as root, right? Probably that is exactly what Virtualmin does during the installation. This theory would also explain that mostly virtualmin users complain about this issue :-)