How does one enable AMaViS debugging for SpamAssassin with minimal interruption in a production environment?

[Ben Johnson]

On 1/11/2013 3:23 AM, Rob Sterenborg (lists) wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 10:38 PM, Ben Johnson wrote:
>> I have a need to enable AMaViS's SpamAssassin debugging facilities on a
>> production server (i.e., "amavisd -d dns,uri,uridnsbl debug-sa").
>>
>> How is this done with minimal interruption to amavis, and mail delivery,
>> overall?
>>
>> I have tried starting amavisd-new with "amavisd-new debug-sa", but the
>> process appears to terminate after the first message is processed:
>>
>> Jan 10 13:31:16.970 example.com /usr/sbin/amavisd-new[14043]: (14043-01)
>> Requesting process rundown after 1 tasks (and 1 sessions)
>> Jan 10 13:31:16.971 example.com /usr/sbin/amavisd-new[14043]: (14043-01)
>> extra modules loaded: unicore/lib/gc_sc/Alnum.pl,
>> unicore/lib/gc_sc/Alpha.pl
>> Jan 10 13:31:16.972 example.com /usr/sbin/amavisd-new[14043]: (14043-01)
>> Net::Server: 2013/01/10-13:31:16 Server closing!
>>
>> Presumably, this is by design.
>>
>> If there is a better means by which to achieve the objective, I'm all
>> ears.
> 
> Put this in amavisd.conf and restart amavisd-new:
> 
> $sa_debug = 1; # Enable SpamAssassin debugging
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rob
> 
> 

Perfect; that's just what I was looking for. Thanks, Rob!

-Ben