Question about time limits

[Steve Campbell]

Post-Post note:

I removed both the /etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes.mutex and the 
/tmp/MS.bayes.rebuild.lock file after stopping MS. They both reappeared 
shortly after starting MS, but I see no "SpamAssassin Bayes database rebuild 
starting" message in maillog.

I just don't understand how all this works with the two files. This occurred 
ages ago with an older release, and the solution was to just delete the 
mutex, then do a force-expire. Don't know if this is the same, but if it 
gets caught up again, this is just a temp fix.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Campbell" <campbell at cnpapers.com>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Question about time limits


> Post note:
>
> I also see a /tmp/MS.bayes.rebuild.lock file whose access time is 
> constantly being updated, but I see nothing in the maillog to indicate a 
> rebuild is running.
>
> Maybe delete this file after stopping MS?
>
> Steve
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Campbell" <campbell at cnpapers.com>
> To: "MailScanner mailing list" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 1:43 PM
> Subject: Question about time limits
>
>
>> I've been following the thread on large bayes files, due to the fact that 
>> mine is pretty big. I have been having a load average situation that does 
>> not follow any particular pattern, and nothing I see triggers the sudden 
>> upswing - it just seems to happen.
>>
>> Anyway, I am wondering how a couple of the MailScanner.conf parameters 
>> interact with each other, as it doesn't seem to work the way I thought. I 
>> hope I tie all of this together in some logical sense below.
>>
>> I have set in MS.conf the following settings:
>>
>> Restart Every = 14400
>> Rebuild Bayes Every = 86400
>>
>> So I restart MS every 6 hours and rebuild bayes files every 24 hours. But 
>> Mailwatch says the last expiry was on June 27, 3 days ago. Does the 
>> Restart reset the timer for the Rebuild or is the timer determined from 
>> the bayes database itself?
>>
>> Two questions then -
>>
>> 1) If the Restart resets the Rebuild timer, then shouldn't the Restart be 
>> larger than the Rebuild parm?
>> 2) If the Rebuild timer is determined from the DB itself, how come mine 
>> hasn't been triggered for 3 days?
>>
>> Running MS 4.52.2-1 and SA 3.1.1
>>
>> Any clues, please? I believe I have all the other setting properly set in 
>> MS.conf and spam.assassin.prefs.conf.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Steve Campbell
>> campbell at cnpapers.com
>> Charleston Newspapers
>>
>>
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