Periodic (5min) SpamAssassin timeouts

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 12:08:00 IST 2006


Hej Tony,

On 10/10/06, Tony Johansson <tony.johansson at svenskakyrkan.se> wrote:
> > I'd check
> >
(snip)
> > 2) more likely bayes issues. How are you cleaning the bayes system? Are
> > you letting mailScanner do it (via the
> > spam.assassin.prefs.conf/mailScanner.conf) settings, or are you doing
> > this manually via a cron job?
> >
>
> 2: We have "Rebuild Bayes Every = 0" in MailScanner.conf
> 04:04 cron runs "clean.and.sa-learn":
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /root/.spamassassin
> rm -f /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks.expire*
> /usr/bin/sa-learn --force-expire
>
That script is run from /etc/cron.daily, right? Explains why the
timeouts stop at 4:05, since those scripts are likely started at 04:00
(look in /etc/crontabs).

(snip)
>
> Timing seems spot on with when the last timeouts stopped but why the 5 min
> timeouts? Should we let MailScanner manage the rebuilds and at what settings?
>
Can't say for sure. Matt probably knows:-)
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