bayes fails learning, but only sometimes

[Glenn Steen]

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On 01/12/05, IT Dept <itdept at fractalweb.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Having a problem where sometimes I get errors when trying to teach bayes
> that a message is spam. MailWatch gives the following error:
>
>     SA Learn: bayes: failed rename /etc/MailScanner/bayes/_journal to
>     /etc/MailScanner/bayes/_journal.old, bayes: failed rename
>     /etc/MailScanner/bayes/_journal to
>     /etc/MailScanner/bayes/_journal.old, Learned from 0 message(s) (1
>     message(s) examined)
>
>
> Yet other times, it works fine.
>
> Is this a MailWatch issue (in which case, I'll ask over there), or a
> MailScanner one?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris

Could you give the output from
ls -la /etc/MailScanner/bayes
.... just to rule out any permission issues ... Oh yeah, what is (if
at all) bayes_file_mode set to?

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