maq entry missing - large bayes database

[Glenn Steen]

On 03/09/06, Harondel J. Sibble <mailscanner at pdscc.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 30 Aug 2006 at 15:24, Scott Silva wrote:
>
> > can you run ls -al /etc/MailScanner/bayes and post the output. You should only
> > have 3 or 4 files in that directory. My bayes dir is much smaller;
> > # du -h /etc/MailScanner/bayes/
> > 32M     /etc/MailScanner/bayes/
>
> There were literally thousands of files totalling 1.7gb....
>
> :-(

Were they "*expire*" files? If so, they're just leftover crud from
failed/timed-out expire runs ... just delete them.

> So something is obviously wrong, in the end I just moved the files to a
> directory under /var and tried running salearn with the expire and database
> location switches, but it quickly runs through and says (from memory) there's
> nothing to expire
Which would be true if you had at least one pretty recent successful expire;)

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