Bayes not running

[Alex Laslavic]

MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK> wrote on 09/13/2004
12:58:13 PM:

> If you have everything listed in messages, and just still not running,
check
> if your upgrad did not damaged your bayes.
>
> If you copied the old bays and upgrade then to a new version of
> spamassassin, check if it wasnt damaged. SpamAssassin RC3 just damaged my
> bayes.
>
> Felipe Tonioli
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 12:39 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Bayes not running
> >
> >
> > At 10:47 AM 9/13/2004, Alex Laslavic wrote:
> > >I just rebuilt our mailscanner server on a new machine, and in
> > the process
> > >upgraded to the newest versions.  Everything is running fine, but I
have
> > >noticed that Bayes is not running.  Spamassassin --lint successfully
ties
> > >to the bayes databases, but when MailScanner is running bayes is
> > not being
> > >used.  I cannot find any error messages in the logs, to give me a clue
> > >here.
> > >
> > >Suggestions on where I need to look to see why bayes is not running?
> >
> > Does your spam.assassin.prefs.conf contain a "bayes_path" statement?
> >
> > If so, Mailscanner is going to use that directory, whereas the SA
command
> > line tools will use their defaults.
> >
> > I for one find this to be a nuisance, so I've commented out the
bayes_path
> > statement in spam.assassin.prefs.conf, and allow my bayes DB's to live
in
> > root's home directory.
> >
> > As an alternative you can pass the --dbpath option to sa-learn
> > while training.
> >
> > However, getting the spamassassin command-line tool to recognize the
new
> > path without using a site-wide setting in /etc/mail/spamassassin can be
> > tricky. And if you do make it site-wide, you need to make the bayes
files
> > world-writable, or ensure no SA tools are ever executed as any user
other
> > than root.
> >

Thanks for all the answers folks.  I'm sorta going to try to answer
everyones questions in one message.  I copied the bayes files from the old
server to the new one.  It went from SA 2.63 to SA 2.64.  spamassassin -C
/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf -D --lint ties sucessfully to the
bayes files, and even puts a bayes score on the test done by --lint.

In MailScanner.conf, I have the spamassassin directory set to
/mnt/data/spamassassin/bayes.  The files and directories are all R/W to the
postfix user and group.  I also have the bayes path in
spam.assassin.prefs.conf set to /mnt/data/spamassassin/bayes/bayes .  I
guess my real question is, why would bayes be working with a spamassassin
-C /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf -D --lint, but not when
MailScanner is actually running?

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