Re: Latest time a masscheck must be submitted?

Giovanni Bechis <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:28:23 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,
crontab(5) assumes 24h hour format, 2:23 is 02:23AM.
   Regards
    Giovanni

On 11/19/25 5:55 PM, Tobi wrote:
> Hi Giovanni
> 
> I assume that 8:28UTC means morning. But what means 2:23 UTC? :-) 14:23
> or 02:23?
> 
> Have a good one
> 
> tobi
> On Wed, 2025-11-19 at 16:02 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>> On 11/18/25 12:26 PM, Tobi wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> in describtion for masscheck is stated
>>>
>> adding ruleqa mailing list to get a wider audience
>>
>>>> If your upload looks good, then you're probably ready to automate
>>> nightly checks. Configure automasscheck to run as a cron job as
>>> your
>>> non-root user at or after 9AM UTC. (After weekly-versions.txt /
>>> nightly-versions.txt gets updated in rsync.spamassassin.org::corpus
>>> .
>>> If you run it earlier it will break things. )
>>>
>>> so "at or after 9AM UTC". But how "big" is the "after"? By when is
>>> the
>>> latest time of the day the masscheck submission must occur?
>>>
>> On masscheck server cronjobs run at ~8:28 UTC and ~2:23 UTC, I think
>> you should be able to submit your data before 2:23 UTC.
>>
>>    Giovanni
>>> Background: I need to move my server rack where the masscheck box
>>> runs
>>> into my office. As this is a quite loud box I would like to make my
>>> submission outside office-hours. The box is triggered via a "plug
>>> the
>>> power" via network. Usually it takes up to 2-3 hours for the
>>> masscheck
>>> to deal with my corpus. So the question would be: is a masscheck in
>>> the evening, I'd say after 4PM UTC still possible? And is there an
>>> exact closing time for masschecks of the day?
>>>
>>> Have a good one
>>>
>>> tobi

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