bayes.lock files haunting me...

[Julian Field]

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Kevin Miller wrote:

>Julian Field wrote:
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>>Kevin Miller wrote:
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>>>Julian Field wrote:
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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. 
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>>>Well, I was having the lock file troubles so I added the cron job
>>>yesterday to see if it would make any difference and forgot to turn
>>>it off in MailScanner.  Senior moment I guess.  I'll kill it and see
>>>how things go over the weekend. 
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>>>Should I leave the wait on?
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>>The wait only applies to MailScanner's rebuilds, it has no effect on
>>your cron job's operation.
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>Yeah, I understand that.  If I kill the cron job, and leave the rebuild at
>86400, should the wait be enabled?  Default is no, but in this case what
>does wisdom dictate?
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It depends a bit on the mail traffic through your site. If the rebuild 
takes a long time, then you probably want to continue delivering while 
it goes on (wait=no). If it only takes a minute or two, and your server 
can catch up fairly quickly, you probably want to wait for it to 
complete (wait=yes).

I would go for wait=yes and change it if it causes a problem. Otherwise 
spam will get through during the rebuild.

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