Rod Whitworth wrote:
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> nixpix:
> #!/bin/sh
> cd /root/data
> rm -f nixspam
> ftp http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/nixspam.gz
> if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
>         gunzip nixspam.gz
>         cut -d " " -f 1 nixspam >/var/db/nixspam
> fi


Any particular reason why you don't use:
	zcat nixspam.gz | cut -d " " -f 1 > /var/db/nixspam

Obviously the above script must run before spamd-setup; how much sooner 
do you run it?