SA, bayes, BerkeleyDB

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,
   I'm on Solaris 8, db 4.1.  My /.spamassassin directory looks like thus:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     daemon      1714 Mar 26 11:15 bayes_msgcount
-rw-r--r--   1 root     daemon     24576 Mar 26 11:15 bayes_seen
-rw-r--r--   1 root     daemon    671744 Mar 26 11:15 bayes_toks

(BTW, defining auto_whitelist_path in the MailScanner spam.assassin.prefs.conf
file has no effect on where the .spamassassin dir goes, still into
the root directory).

When I do "check_bayes_db -db /.spamassassin/bayes | more"
I get:

0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: db format = on-the-fly probs,
expiry, scan-counting
0.000        0        4        0  non-token data: nspam
0.000        0      150        0  non-token data: nham
0.000        0    14387        0  non-token data: ntokens
0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: oldest age
0.000        0     1698        0  non-token data: current scan-count
0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: last expiry scan-count
0.090        0        2     1542  Sentinel
0.020        0       11     1698  N:NNNNNNNN
0.149        0        1     1543  H*m:RCXN13905
(lots more)

>From staring at the source code to check_bayes_db, this seems to be
correct behavior, I think.

--- Jeff

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:44:12 +0000
> From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: SA, bayes, BerkeleyDB
>
> 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.
> --
> Julian Field
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