# Classification.config - which source and how to control output

**URL:** <https://forum.suricata.io/t/classification-config-which-source-and-how-to-control-output/5109>\
**Category:** Rules\
**Tags:** rules, suricata\
**Created:** [December 6, 2024, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.suricata.io/t/classification-config-which-source-and-how-to-control-output/5109 "2024-12-06T08:57:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.suricata.io/t/classification-config-which-source-and-how-to-control-output/5109/1 "2024-12-06T08:57:32Z")

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When using suricata-update, it will re-create your classification.config but not at the same location as the suricata.yaml (nor custom.yaml loaded by suricata.yaml) might specify and instead if there is a classification.config in the ‘datadir’, suricata seems to use that.

Suricata-update will use a file (/usr/share/suricata ?) as the source and after digesting the rules output details about a diff/and use higher to re-create classification.config which it puts in the default rules folder, but, I cannot seem to update the source of this file/initial contribution?

What I am doing now is not having suricata-update reload/test, and once the ‘update’ finishes, I copy over the classification.config that I want to have read by suricata, and if it read the old one, I seem to have to restart (not reload) suricata. In this, it seems suricata reload only handles rules files and the suricata.yaml+ files, but no ‘config’ files.

Please let me know where greater undrestanding can be had, thank you for your time!