GPL installation: "sa-update"... Succeeded or not Succeeded...

Submitted by Locutus on Sat, 11/06/2010 - 06:38

That is the question. ;)

I'm just doing another test install, and the install.sh finished with these lines:

INFO - Updating SpamAssassin rules...
...in progress, please wait...
....http: GET http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/asf/1031475.tar.gz request failed: 404 Not Found: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>404 Not Found</title> </head><body> <h1>Not Found</h1> <p>The requested URL /sa-update/asf/1031475.tar.gz was not found on this server.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.2.6 (Fedora) Server at daryl.dostech.ca Port 80</address> </body></html>
...
INFO - sa-update: Succeeded.

I'm wondering now if the update really succeeded, when I see a 404 error just before that. :)

The file ~/virtualmin-install.log contains:

INFO - 2010-11-06 12:24:16 - Updating SpamAssassin rules...
INFO - 2010-11-06 12:24:24 - sa-update: Succeeded.

A manual update attempt yields:

root@lyra:~# sa-update -v
Update finished, no fresh updates were available

So my best guess right now is that the 404 error during installation was just "one out of several attempts", or something like that? At the very least, it feels a bit confusing to get an error and right afterwards an "all okay". ;)

Status: 
Closed (works as designed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 11/06/2010 - 11:24

Yeah, I bet it failed on that mirror and then tried another.

sa-update is part of spamassassin, so we can't do much about its funny output ..

Submitted by Locutus on Sat, 11/06/2010 - 12:09

Yup, let it output all it wants, that's just fine. It was just that reading an "all okay" right after a "not found" seemed odd. :)