SA Timeouts

[Scott Silva]

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Jim Coates wrote:
> hmmm...
> I have the bayes_auto_expire set to "0" now (no longer commented out).
>
> I restarted MailScanner, but for some reason these expiry files are still
> being created at a fairly rapid pace.
>
> I'm getting 1 every 6 minutes or so.
>
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Kai Schaetzl
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:31 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: SA Timeouts
>
>
> Jim Coates wrote on         Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:40:30 -0600:
>
>
>>In the MailScanner.conf, I have Rebuild Bayes Every set to "0" and the
>>Wait
>>During Bayes Rebuild set to "no", so doesn't this already mean that it
>>shouldn't be trying to rebuild itself?
>
>
> It means that there is no minimum between the expiry tries and MS won't wait
>
> during a running expiry. That is what produces those many temporary files.
> It
> might just be enough to set this to yes (it should always be set to yes).
> Then
> MS should wait with using SA until the expire has finished.
>
>
>>
>>I do have bayes auto expire remarked out in the
>>spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>>file.
>
>
> You have to set this to 0 if you want to stop it. Commented out means
> default
> = do it.
>
>
>>
>>If I change the auto expire setting, and then add the cron job
>>(pointing to
>>SA's local.cf I assume) will that then take care of the issue for now?
>>
>
>
> It is possible. As you see above there are several ways to fix the problem,
> it
> depends on what the cause of the problem is. Run the command at least once
> directly before you run it over cron. There might be a problem, so that the
> expiry cannot finish. In this case running via cron will obviously not help.
>
>
>
> Kai
>
Why not stop MailScanner, do a forced expire from a command prompt, and
after it finishes, restart MailScanner. It might be so munged up that it
can no longer work properly.



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