SA, bayes, BerkeleyDB

[Julian Field]

At 15:40 26/03/2003, you wrote:
>Julian,
>    You commented on the list the other day "you need version 3
>of BerkeleyDB installed, beware of version 4".  Why I wonder?
>I have 4.1 installed in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB4.1 with a symlink
>of /usr/local/BerkeleyDB -> BerkeleyDB4.1.  Things seem to be
>working ok with SA, after I changed the "use AnyDBM_file" in
>SA.pm to "use DB_file".   The bayes stuff in /.spamassassin is
>updating for me...

I was using DB4.1 on Solaris, and SpamAssassin wasn't working properly at
all. It couldn't even get the nspam and nham counters out of the database
files.
It may well be okay on Linux.
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Julian Field
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