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Topic: Cannot open file /var/lib/spamassassin

Hi ,

Am seeing this error in daily spamassassin cron....

(can provide full log if needed)


/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin:
Cannot open file /var/lib/spamassassin/3.004002/updates_spamassassin_org/1861562.tar.gz: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/sa-update line 1600.
Jun 20 07:03:16.933 [16827] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all
Jun 20 07:03:16.933 [16827] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG
Jun 20 07:03:16.933 [16827] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.4.2
Jun 20 07:03:16.933 [16827] dbg: generic: Perl 5.022001, PREFIX=/usr, DEF_RULES_DIR=/usr/share/spamassassin, LOCAL_RULES_DIR=/etc/spamassassin, LOCAL_STATE_DIR=/var/lib/spamassassin
Jun 20 07:03:16.933 [16827] dbg: config: timing enabled
Jun 20 07:03:16.935 [16827] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen.
Jun 20 07:03:16.938 [16827] dbg: util: running in taint mode? yes
Jun 20 07:03:16.938 [16827] dbg: util: taint mode: deleting unsafe environment variables, resetting PATH
Jun 20 07:03:16.938 [16827] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/local/sbin', keeping
Jun 20 07:03:16.938 [16827] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/local/bin', keeping
Jun 20 07:03:16.938 [16827] dbg: util: PATH included '/sbin', keeping
Jun 20 07:03:16.938 [16827] dbg: util: PATH included '/bin', keeping
Jun 20 07:03:16.938 [16827] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/sbin', keeping
Jun 20 07:03:16.938 [16827] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/bin', keeping
Jun 20 07:03:16.938 [16827] dbg: util: final PATH set to: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Jun 20 07:03:17.053 [16827] dbg: diag: perl platform: 5.022001 linux
Jun 20 07:03:17.053 [16827] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Digest::SHA, version 5.95
Jun 20 07:03:17.053 [16827] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: HTML::Parser, version 3.72
Jun 20 07:03:17.053 [16827] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Net::DNS, version 0.81
Jun 20 07:03:17.053 [16827] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: NetAddr::IP, version 4.078
Jun 20 07:03:17.053 [16827] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Time::HiRes, version 1.9726
Jun 20 07:03:17.053 [16827] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Archive::Tar, version 2.04


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Re: Cannot open file /var/lib/spamassassin

It seems a temporary network issue which causes cron job can not successfully update SpamAssassin rules.
I suggest try again manually by running "sa-update". Also wait for tomorrow's output.

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Re: Cannot open file /var/lib/spamassassin

Hi Zhang,

Thanks for responding.

Must have been a once off issue - since been updating OK.

Regards,

Robert