/usr/bin/ftp required for spamd but missing

rcarr

I installed the spamd pkg. However, it looks like it isn't updating the blacklists and whitelists:

spamd-setup -d

whitelist whitelist 9 entries
blacklist blacklist 0 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/traplist.gz
blacklist U-of-A-Traplist 0 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/chinacidr.txt.gz
blacklist China-CIDR 0 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/koreacidr.txt.gz
blacklist Korea-CIDR 0 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/spews_list_level1.txt.gz
blacklist Spews-Level-1 0 entries
Getting http://www.dnswl.org/data/rbldnsd-dnswl
whitelist DNSWL 0 entries

I discovered this post

http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-September/009265.html

where a user experiences something similar. He discovers the problem is that spamd needs ftp.

http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-September/009273.html

ftp is not present on my full install of pfsense. To test the ftp theory, I did:

cd /usr/local/bin

ln -s ./fetch ftp

spamd-setup -d

whitelist whitelist 9 entries
blacklist blacklist 0 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/traplist.gz
ftp: illegal option – V
usage: fetch [-146AFMPRUadlmnpqrsv] [-N netrc] [-o outputfile]
[-S bytes] [-B bytes] [-T seconds] [-w seconds]
[-h host -f file [-c dir] | URL …]
blacklist U-of-A-Traplist 0 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/chinacidr.txt.gz
ftp: illegal option -- V
usage: fetch [-146AFMPRUadlmnpqrsv] [-N netrc] [-o outputfile]
[-S bytes] [-B bytes] [-T seconds] [-w seconds]
[-h host -f file [-c dir] | URL …]
blacklist China-CIDR 0 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/koreacidr.txt.gz
ftp: illegal option -- V
usage: fetch [-146AFMPRUadlmnpqrsv] [-N netrc] [-o outputfile]
[-S bytes] [-B bytes] [-T seconds] [-w seconds]
[-h host -f file [-c dir] | URL …]
blacklist Korea-CIDR 0 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/spews_list_level1.txt.gz
ftp: illegal option -- V
usage: fetch [-146AFMPRUadlmnpqrsv] [-N netrc] [-o outputfile]
[-S bytes] [-B bytes] [-T seconds] [-w seconds]
[-h host -f file [-c dir] | URL …]
blacklist Spews-Level-1 0 entries
Getting http://www.dnswl.org/data/rbldnsd-dnswl
ftp: illegal option -- V
usage: fetch [-146AFMPRUadlmnpqrsv] [-N netrc] [-o outputfile]
[-S bytes] [-B bytes] [-T seconds] [-w seconds]
[-h host -f file [-c dir] | URL …]
whitelist DNSWL 0 entries

Clearly, spamd-setup wants to use /usr/bin/ftp. Isn't it supposed to be part of pfsense's FreeBSD 6 distro?

I can't pkg_add it, since it's supposed to be part of the base system. Is there somewhere I can get this?

sullrich

You can fetch it from http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/extra/ftp

I have added it to the default installation going forward.

rcarr

Thanks very much! I appreciate it.

rcarr

That fixed it. Thanks again, Scott.

spamd-setup -d

whitelist whitelist 10 entries
blacklist blacklist 1 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/traplist.gz
blacklist U-of-A-Traplist 32928 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/chinacidr.txt.gz
blacklist China-CIDR 431 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/koreacidr.txt.gz
blacklist Korea-CIDR 270 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/spews_list_level1.txt.gz
blacklist Spews-Level-1 14482 entries
whitelist DNSWL 19619 entries

sullrich

Good deal!