bayes fails learning, but only sometimes

[Glenn Steen]

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On 01/12/05, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote:
> IT Dept wrote on         Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:38:38 -0800:
>
> > -rwxrwxrwt    1 root     apache       2064 Dec  4  2004 bayes_journal
> > -rwxrwxrwt    1 root     apache         52 Dec 20  2003 bayes_msgcount
> > -rwxrwxrwt    1 root     apache   42049536 Dec  4  2004 bayes_seen
> > -rwxrwxrwt    1 root     apache    5320704 Dec  4  2004 bayes_toks
> > -rwxrwxrwt    1 root     apache       1338 Dec  1 12:35 .mutex
> > -rwxrwxrwt    1 root     apache   82595840 Dec  1 12:35 _seen
> > -rw-rw----    1 root     apache    2781184 Dec  1 12:35 _toks
>
> There's something wrong in your config file. First, delete the first four
> files. Then rename the _* files to bayes_* and change the config
> accordingly, so that it uses them.
> The rename fails because there's no "_journal" file. Not sure why, though.
>
> Kai
>
> --
> Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany
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(Smacks fo4rhead) Of course! I should have seen that too.
Let me guess that the bayes_path is set to something like
"/etc/MailScanner/bayes/"? It should be "/etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes"
(not a typo, the last "bayes" is part of the filename(s) created). Oh
well. Now that it's been eloquently pointed out by Kai, it's so very
obvious:-).

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-- Glenn
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