Bayes.lock issue

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Michael Freeman wrote:
> I installed the latest version of MS available from the MS site.
> 
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> Last night after we started MS the server crashed. We weren^Òt sure why 
> it went down but it seemed like our server crashed about 15min after MS 
> was started. It may have been a co incidence but when restarting MS we 
> get this error.
> 
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> 
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
> 
>          incoming exim:                                    [  OK  ]
> 
>          outgoing exim:                                    [  OK  ]
> 
>          MailScanner:       SA bayes lock is 
> /var/spool/mqueue/.spamassassin/bayes.lock
> 
> Bayes lock is at /var/spool/mqueue/.spamassassin/bayes.lock
> 
> SA bayes lock is /var/spool/mqueue/.spamassassin/bayes.lock
> 
> Bayes lock is at /var/spool/mqueue/.spamassassin/bayes.lock
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> 
> We have MS running on 5 servers and we have never had to wrestle with 
> this error before. This was a fresh installation of MS.
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> Out ms runs as user mailnull.mail
> 
> /var/spool/ is chown mailnull.mail and so is the spamassassin directory. 
> Tried turning off bayes just to see if we could get this started but 
> none of the options in spam.assassin.prefs.conf allow us to turn of 
> stupid bayes. Can somebody show us exactly how to turn it off or tell us 
> why we are getting this error?

First, please use a decent language.

Second, not all of the options are in spam.assassin.prefs.conf, there a 
are just too many of them.

Third, to disable bayes, put this in your spam.assassin.prefs.conf file

use_bayes 0

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> Thanks
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