bayes rebuild not completing?

[Julian Field]

At 11:17 12/02/2004, you wrote:
>Julian Field wrote:
>
>>At 00:02 12/02/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>>Mickey Everts wrote:
>>>
>>>>I installed the latest stable release earlier this week and turned on
>>>>the auto rebuild feature.  This is on a Linux box for the record.
>>>>Anyways, here are the messages I see in my logs.
>>>>Feb 11 10:23:30 defender MailScanner[680]: Bayes database rebuild is
>>>>due
>>>>
>>>>Feb 11 10:23:31 defender MailScanner[680]: SpamAssassin Bayes database
>>>>rebuild preparing
>>>>
>>>>Feb 11 10:24:06 defender MailScanner[680]: SpamAssassin Bayes database
>>>>rebuild starting
>>>>My settings are as follows:
>>>>Rebuild Bayes Every = 86400
>>>>Wait During Bayes Rebuild = yes
>>>>I grepped the MailScanner source and it appears that I should be
>>>>seeing the following message also, but I am not.
>>>>SpamAssassin Bayes database rebuild completed
>>>
>>>Does rebuild bayes completely remove all entries and start from scratch?
>>>
>>>Where do those config entries go? I cant find in ms.conf or sa.conf Can
>>>i add the above 2 lines to my spamassassin.prefs.conf and my bayes will
>>>be renewed from scratch every month?
>>
>>
>>MailScanner.conf (should be in either /etc/MailScanner or
>>/opt/MailScanner/etc depending on your OS).
>>It rebuilds the database structure using the data in your current Bayes
>>database, and goes through removing "expired" entries. So it doesn't lose
>>any data, it just does a load of housekeeping.
>>--
>>Julian Field
>>www.MailScanner.info
>>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>>
>>PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>>
>>
>Hmm i have 4.25-4 i dont seem to have those entries in MS.conf
>
>Is there a command ot completely refresh, start from new, or leave the
>original first 200 entries in bayes?
>
>We dont have any manual learning, staff wont do it, so bayes dont work
>after 2 months or so, poison, so be nice to delete and rebuild it
>monthly or something?
>
>Is there a sa-learn command for that, or need to do in perl to remove
>and recreate DBs?

Shut down MailScanner, wait for it to die cleanly, delete the
~root/.spamassassin/bayes* files and start up MailScanner again.
--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654