4.26.7, bayes rebuild, confused. -- 4.26.8

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Feb 2 15:32:49 GMT 2004


I just fell foul of not having "Log Spam = yes" so you might want to
double-check that.
It appears to be logging fine on a Solaris 2.8 box.

At 15:08 02/02/2004, you wrote:
>Julian,
>
>    Popped 4.26.8 into place, let it run for a few minutes (Sol 9, SA
>2.63, Razor).  No more complaints about Bayes, but no SpamAssassin
>messages either.  I ran a batch in debug mode for both MS and SA, and
>it looked like stuff in the debug batch got tagged by SA:
>
>debug: is spam? score=10.95 required=5
>tests=BAYES_20,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,MIME_MISSING_BOUNDARY,MISSING_MIMEOLE,MSGID_FROM_MTA_SHORT,NO_REAL_NAME,PRIORITY_NO_NAME,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK
>
>but nothing in the syslog regarding SA.  I also set the log level
>for razor to 4 and razor is busy.  How to check it 4.26.8 is really
>using SA, if nothing appears in syslog?  I'm back to running 4.25-14.
>
>Jeff Earickson
>Colby College
>
>On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:06:40 +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: [MAILSCANNER] 4.26.7, bayes rebuild, confused. -- 4.26.8
> >
> > I have just posted version 4.26.8.
> >
> > The problem did not appear on Linux, but does appear on Solaris. You can
> > now disable all the relevant code by setting
> >
> > Rebuild Bayes Every = 0
> >
> > I will look into fixing this as a priority, but it is highly OS-specific
> > and may even be Perl-version specific. It refuses to lock a file it has
> > just successfully opened, but seems happy when I do it elsewhere :-(
> >
> > Jules.
> >
> > P.S. thanks for your patience....
> >
> > At 10:23 02/02/2004, you wrote:
> > >Inevitably I put a config name wrong in that one.
> > >
> > >At 09:40 02/02/2004, you wrote:
> > >>Please could you try the attached SA.pm and see if it helps.
> > >>
> > >>Changes:
> > >>         - Set "Rebuild Bayes Every = 0" should disable all this code.
> > >>         - Locking code changed to more closely match the virus scanner
> > >>locking code.
> > >>
> > >>The trouble is, it all works for me. But that's on a Linux system,
> and the
> > >>underlying locking behaviour may well be different on Solaris.
> > >>
> > >>At 07:56 02/02/2004, you wrote:
> > >>>Hello,
> > >>>
> > >>>I have the same behaviour with the rebuild of bayes database and I
> get it
> > >>>every time MailScanner is launched.
> > >>>
> > >>>To avoid the "Skipping", I have to "manually" remove the lock file
> > >>>(for me it's not important since I do not use bayes !)
> > >>>
> > >>>In SA.pm, the lock file is created before the test on "$RebuildBayes"
> > >>>and the lock is removed only if the bayes database has been rebuild.
> > >>>
> > >>>If $RebuildBayes == 0, the lock will never be removed.
> > >>>
> > >>>if $RebuildBAYES <> 0, it seems that the rebuild on solaris don't finish
> > >>>or don't begin ???
> > >>>
> > >>>        I see the "Skipping" line in the logfile but I don't see any
> line
> > >>>        such as "SpamAssassin Bayes database rebuild preparing" even
> with
> > >>>        $RebuildBAYES <> 0
> > >>>
> > >>>--
> > >>>-- Pascal --
> > >>>           --
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>--
> > >>Julian Field
> > >>www.MailScanner.info
> > >>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> > >>
> > >>PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >Julian Field
> > >www.MailScanner.info
> > >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> > >
> > >PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >
> > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
> >

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