bayes stopped working

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Wed Nov 3 08:45:08 GMT 2004


Nick

had somehting similar a couple of weeks ago. The bayes side of SA seemed
to have got corrupted somehow. Everything reported OK, but doing
anything on the bayes (sa-learn etc) just timed out.

I restored from the previous days backup and everything was fine after
that....

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Nick Meverden wrote:
> MailScanner stopped using bayes today with no errors, the database is no
> longer auto-learning (ntokens do not increase) and the BAYES_ score rules
> are no longer being used.  Has anyone seen this before?  Using
> spamassassin -D --lint returns no bayes errors and if I run mail through
> it it'll use bayes.  MailScanner.conf and spam.assassin.prefs.conf both
> are pointing to the correct db path.  And bayes is enabled in
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf.  Journal sync is setup in MailScanner.conf for
> daily.  And I setup auto_expire to 0 in spam.assassin.prefs.conf and run a
> cron job that shuts down MailScanner and manually expires the db and
> removes any bayes_expire* files if they exist.  The bayes db was not
> upgrade from 2.6X it was created using SA 3.0.0.  I would like to be able
> to save the database with out clearing it out.
>
>  thanks,
>
>      - Nick
>
> Here is the version info, output from sa-learn --dump magic, and a lock
> file that always exist in /tmp, and the contents of my bayes db.
>
> Spamassassin 3.0.0
> MailScanner Version Number = 4.34.8
> Perl 5.8.5
> Linux 2.4.26
>
> 0.000          0          3          0  non-token data: bayes db version
> 0.000          0       2141          0  non-token data: nspam
> 0.000          0       1389          0  non-token data: nham
> 0.000          0     116161          0  non-token data: ntokens
> 0.000          0 1098405034          0  non-token data: oldest atime
> 0.000          0 1099095787          0  non-token data: newest atime
> 0.000          0          0          0  non-token data: last journal sync
> atime
> 0.000          0 1099355126          0  non-token data: last expiry atime
> 0.000          0     691200          0  non-token data: last expire atime
> delta
> 0.000          0      20945          0  non-token data: last expire
> reduction count
>
> /tmp/MS.bayes.rebuild.lock
> SpamAssassin Bayes database locked for use by MailScanner 2022
>
> /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
>
> 2592 auto-whitelist           4 bayes.mutex            328 bayes_seen
>    4 auto-whitelist.mutex     4 bayes_journal         2604 bayes_toks
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