RAZOR-AGENTS(1) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   RAZOR-AGENTS(1)

NAME

       Razor-Agents - Collection of files for checking, reporting, and revoking spam

DESCRIPTION

       Vipul's Razor is a distributed, collaborative, spam detection, reporting, and filtering network. The primary focus of the system is to
       identify and remove all email spam from the internet.  Visit the website at http://razor.sourceforge.net/.

USAGE

       First a razorhome directory should be created where log, conf, and cached server information will live.	This is done via "-create" option
       to razor-admin(1).  See man page for details.

       You can immediately check spam using razor-check(1).  See man page for details.

       To report spam, an identity must be registered.	This is done via "-register" option to razor-admin(1).	After that, razor-report(1) and
       razor-revoke(1) will work flawlessly.

CONFIGURATION

       All Razor-Agents share a configuration file.  The contents of the configuration file are detailed in the razor-agent.conf(5) manpage.

       Config file is computed before razorhome, in the following order:

	-conf=/path/file.conf		used if readable, else
	<home>/.razor/razor-agent.conf	used if readable, else
	/etc/razor/razor-agent.conf	used if readable, else
	all defaults are used.

       To see configuration defaults, do
	 razor-admin -create -conf=/tmp/razor2-defaults.conf

RAZORHOME

       All Razor-Agents also share a razorhome directory, where identity, logging, and cached information about servers is stored.  Razorhome is
       computed after configuration file, in the following order.

	-home=/tmp/razor/		      used if readable, else
	'razorhome' from configuration file   used if readable, else
	<home>/.razor/			      used if readable, else
	<home>/.razor/			      is created.  if that fails,
					      no razorhome.

	NOTE: If there is no razorhome, razor-report and razor-revoke will
	      not work unless you specify  -ident=/path/identity
	      razor-check will still work.

FILES

       Besides those listed at the end with their own manpages, Razor Agents also has the following files.

       razorhome/identity
	   Usually a symlink to identity file containing user+pass.  Used by razor-report(1) and razor-revoke(1).

       razorhome/razor-agent.log
	   Default log file.  To change, edit razor-agent.conf(5).

       razorhome/servers.*.lst
	   Cached list of Razor Servers.  If more than one, they are ordered by closest ping time.

       razorhome/server.<name>.lst
	   Cached info for <name> server. The "srl" key in this file is compared against the server greeting, and if server's is greater, new
	   cache info is retrieved from the server.

EXAMPLES

       razor-check -d -debuglevel=9 mbox
	   Checks spam in mbox.  prints numbers for those found to be spam.  -d logs to stdout, -debuglevel=9 is verbose logging

       razor-admin -create -home=/home/chad/.razor -d -s
	   Creates razorhome in /home/chad/.razor, log to stdout, does not connect to server (-s simulate).

       razor-report spam -debuglevel=0
	   sends spam to server, with no log msgs.

AUTHORS

       Vipul Ved Prakash, <mail@vipul.net> and Chad Norwood <chad@samo.org>

SEE ALSO

       razor-agent.conf(5), razor-check(1), razor-admin(1), razor-report(1), razor-revoke(1), razor-whitelist(5)

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