Bayes is not rebuilding

Sat Sep 25 17:47:41 IST 2004

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I have not seen a single instance of the Bayes rebuild in
our logs for over a week. Im not sure how many weeks Bayes has not been
rebuilding for but I just happen to notice it a few days ago. In
MailScanner.conf I have;<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'># If you are using the Bayesian statistics engine on a busy
server,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'># you may well need to force a Bayesian database rebuild and
expiry<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

# at regular intervals. This is measures in seconds. <o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'># 1 day = 86400 seconds. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

# To disable this feature set this to 0. <o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Rebuild Bayes Every = 86400 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'># The Bayesian database rebuild and expiry may take a 2 or 3
minutes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

# to complete. During this time you can either wait, or
simply <o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'># disable SpamAssassin checks until it has completed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Wait During Bayes Rebuild = yes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>And in spam.assassin.prefs.conf I have set auto expire to 0.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Anyone know why all of a sudden this has stopped working?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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