bayes fails learning, but only sometimes

[Scott Silva]

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IT Dept spake the following on 12/1/2005 3:30 PM:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
> 
>> (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:-).
>>  
>>
> Glenn,
> 
> You are exactly right. It was set to "/etc/MailScanner/bayes/" instead
> of "/etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes". I've changed it now, and followed
> Kai's instructions also.
> 
> Now when I try to get the system to learn spam, I get the following
> error message:
> 
> SA Learn: error code 13 returned from sa-learn: bayes: lock: 14827
> cannot create lockfile /etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes.mutex: Permission
> denied bayes: lock: 14827 cannot create lockfile
> /etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes.mutex: Permission denied bayes
> expire_old_tokens: lock: 14827 cannot create lockfile
> /etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes.mutex: Permission denied lock: 14827 cannot
> create lockfile /etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes.mutex: Permission denied
> Learned from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined).
> 
> The dir looks like so:
> 
> # ls -la
> total 59688
> drwxrwxrwt    3 root     apache       8192 Dec  1 15:29 .
> drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Dec  1 15:13 ..
> -rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root          864 Dec  1 15:29 bayes_journal
> -rw-------    1 root     root           12 Dec  1 15:29 bayes.mutex
> -rwxrwxrwt    1 root     apache   82612224 Dec  1 15:29 bayes_seen
> -rw-rw----    1 root     apache    2781184 Dec  1 15:29 bayes_toks
> -rwxrwxrwt    1 root     apache       1338 Dec  1 15:14 .mutex
> 
> Not sure what to do next.
> 
> Chris
> 
Your moving and renaming as root took possession of the files. Fix the
ownership of the files back to root:apache and chmod bayes.mutex to g+rw


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