bayes fails learning, but only sometimes

[IT Dept]

    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

Matt Kettler wrote:

>I assume you've got a bayes_path statement in one of your configs, since it's
>pointing everything to /etc/MailScanner/bayes/
>
>Obviously sa-learn is seeing this too.
>
>questions:
>
>1) do you have bayes_file_mode 0777? (global bayes DBs are unfortunately not
>practical unless it's world rw. Since the mode is really a mask and gets used
>for directories, it needs the 'x' bit as well)
>
>
>2) do you have lock_method flock in spam.assassin.prefs.conf? Is there a
>matching one in /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.cf? (sa-learn needs to use the same
>lock_method as the SA inside MailScanner)
>  
>
Hi Matt,

# grep bayes_file_mode *
spam.assassin.prefs.conf:bayes_file_mode            0666

# grep lock_method *
spam.assassin.prefs.conf:lock_method flock

And:

# pwd
/etc/mail/spamassassin
# grep lock_method *
local.cf:lock_method flock
mailscanner.cf:lock_method flock

Cheers,
Chris

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!