bayes expiry

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Mar 29 15:54:32 IST 2004


Due to your nightly expiry not pausing MailScanner while it does it, your
Bayes files got corrupted.

At 15:43 29/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Any guesses as to why I would all of a sudden be getting the following
>message when doing nightly expiry after this had been working for weeks?
>
>[root at thumper]# sa-learn -C
>/usr/local/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --force-expire
>Cannot open bayes_path /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes R/O: Inappropriate
>file type or format
>Cannot open bayes_path /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes R/W: Inappropriate
>file type or format
>
>The path is correct, and the files were there. I ended up having to delete
>all the bayes files, and when the command was re-ran it created new files.
>
>Thanks
>
>gib
>
>
>      Gib Gilbertson Jr.
>     Tierramiga Info Systems
>      619-287-8647 Support
>      http://www.tmisnet.com
>      San Diego's "Friendly ISP"

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