bayes stopped working (now working)
Nick Meverden
nmeverde at NP.K12.MN.US
Wed Nov 3 14:36:08 GMT 2004
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> Nick
>
> there some syntax differences in the way SA handles AWL's in 3.x. From
> memory someone posted about this last week and the 'fix' was to turn off
> the option in local.cf rather than MailScanner.conf. I wonder is that
> was causing you problems as well???
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
found the thread, I'll disable awl from spam.assassin.prefs.conf should
prevent this from happening again.
>
> Nick Meverden wrote:
>>>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....
>>
>>
>> I noticed I was no longer getting autolearn=not spam in the email
>> headers
>> so I removed auto-whitelist and auto-whitelist.mutex and restarted
>> MailScanner and bayes started working again. Was this a corrupt
>> auto-whitelist db?
>>
>>
>>
>>>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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