Bayes expiry parameters

[John Wilcock]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:57:02 -0400, Stephe Campbell wrote:
> Rebuild Bayes Every = 86400
> Wait During Bayes Rebuild = yes
...
> This is going on the second day since upgrade and change yet I see nothing
> in my logs that anything has happened with regards to expiration. 

I have exactly the same settings, yet I don't see a rebuild occurring
every day. To be precise, I upgraded to 4.29.6 on 26th March, yet didn't
see a rebuild until 1st April. On the 2nd I upgraded again to 4.29.7
after which it went for 2 days without rebuilding, then rebuilt three
days running. Presumably, just as when you let SA do the rebuilding on
its own, it all depends on how much it has learnt since the previous
rebuild and whether the database actually *needs* rebuilding. 

> If I restart (or maybe reload) MS, does this reset the counter? 

I don't see how this could be the case, since MS restarts itself every
4 hours (by default). Indeed, Julian warned that strange things may
happen if you set rebuild bayes every to be less than restart every. 

> What should I
> look for other that "rebuild" or " due "?

You should see the following messages

| Apr  7 08:57:32 gate MailScanner[13684]: Bayes database rebuild is due 
| Apr  7 08:57:32 gate MailScanner[13684]: SpamAssassin Bayes database rebuild preparing 
| Apr  7 08:57:33 gate MailScanner[13684]: SpamAssassin Bayes database rebuild starting 
| Apr  7 08:58:19 gate MailScanner[13684]: SpamAssassin Bayes database rebuild completed 


John.

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