Bayes DB Corruption Problem

[Peter Bonivart]

Gib Gilbertson Jr. wrote:
> Yes. That was me. For normal operations I use spam.assassin.prefs.conf file
> with "bayes_auto_expire 0" set. When I run any scripts that lint the rules
> I have a file called spam.assassin.prefs.conf.bayes which has
> "bayes_auto_expire 0" commented out.
>
> Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping:
> bayes_auto_expire 0

Since bayes_auto_expire is by default set to 1 that's the value it's
going to have since your line doesn't work for some reason. We need to
get it working. Could you post a couple of lines before and after that
line in spam.assassin.prefs.conf? Have you checked for strange
characters in the file? Look at it with both cat and vi.

Another thing you could try is to comment it out from
spam.assassin.prefs.conf and add a file called bayes.cf in
/etc/mail/spamassassin/ contaning only that line, type it in manually
for safety (paranoia mode on :-) ). Try linting as usual.

--
/Peter Bonivart

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