bayes.lock files haunting me...

[Julian Field]

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Why are you rebuilding the Bayes db from MailScanner and from cron? You 
should do either 1 or the other. I would recommend (of course) doing it 
from MailScanner.conf, so just comment out your crontab entry.

Kevin Miller wrote:

>I got the bayes.lock file blues again.  Read the MAQ, read the FAQ, read the
>book.  I must be slow.
>
>Sendmail
>Suse 9.3
>spamassassin 3.03
>MailScanner 4.41.3
>
>spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>	bayes_auto_expire 0
>
>MailScanner.conf
>	Rebuild Bayes Every = 86400
>	Wait During Bayes Build = yes
>	Lock Type = posix
>
>Root's crontab:
>	0  5 * * * /usr/bin/sa-learn --force-expire > /dev/null 2>&1
>
>I don't stop MailScanner to run the force-expire.
>
>I don't get any bayes_expiry files anymore, but every day I get a couple
>bayes.lock* files.  The timestamp is a couple minutes apart up to about 10
>minutes apart and they all fall w/in a half hour up to about an hour and a
>half.  I think around the same time of day that I last started MailScanner,
>which makes me suspect the rebuild process.  In this case the times range
>from 9:04 up to 9:48 am.  
>
>Should I set "Rebuild Bayes Every = 0" and the Wait back to no?  I would
>have thought that telling it to wait would have solved the problem.
>
>Thanks...
>
>...Kevin
>  
>

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