Bayes_toks.expire

[Glenn Steen]

On 18/10/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> sandrews at andrewscompanies.com spake the following on 10/18/2006 7:54 AM:
> > I've got a couple out of probably 20 mailscanner servers where the
> > /etc/MailScanner/bayes directory just fills itself over time with
> > bayes_toks.expireXXXX files.  They are updated to the latest mailscanner
> > and clamav/sa packages.
> >
> > I can't find where these are configured differently than any of the
> > others...
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> That server just might be timing out when the others aren't. Or it could be in
> the position in MX order that it sees more spam. As it has failed a few times,
> its bayes db is getting larger than the others, making the problem worse. You
> could try to do a manual bayes expire so it can "catch up" to the other
> servers, or shorten its time between expiry runs.

Other popular suggestions are to up the SA timeout rather much, set
"Wait During Bayes Rebuild =  yes", set "Rebuild Bayes Every" as
appropriate (and the "followups" to that) ...
There is quite a bit of variation on what makes specific
admins/systems happy:-).

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