Error logged to console?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 25 20:36:13 IST 2002


At 20:27 25/07/2002, you wrote:
>From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > At 19:13 25/07/2002, you wrote:
> > >I also been getting these on the console lately:
> > >ndbm store returned -1, errno 0, key "siilly at msn.com" at
> > >/usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/DBBasedAddrList.pm line 160.
> > >
> > >Looks like a problem with the AWL? I´ve also seen several lockfiles
>laying
> > >around in the AWL-dir. Could they be from when mailscanner kills
> > >spamassassin because of a timeout?
> >
> > Sounds a distinct possibility. Do the stray lockfiles actually do any
>harm?
>
>Well not too much it seems. I had three of them yesterday, so one wonders
>how SA use them... Don't know if the above printed error is when SA leaves
>the lock file behind or when it encounters the old lock file. Is there some
>way to turn on debug logs for SA?

I suggest you take this problem to the satalk list...

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