Slow MailScanner

[Jay Chandler]

Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> Jay Chandler wrote:
>> Dhawal Doshy wrote:
>>> [snippetry]
>>>
>>> For the caching nameserver a low-end box with a gig (or 2) ram 
>>> thrown in and good connectivity would be great. You could also 
>>> simply install the caching-nameserver RPM if you are on redhat/centos..
>>>
>>> - dhawal
>> Very interesting. Should the caching nameserver be run on the 
>> mailservers themselves, or on a different box, and the sole 
>> nameserver entry for this box would be the caching box?
>
> if you can afford a separate server as mentioned above.. great!! else 
> run a local cache with say 100MB size.
>
>> Building the MySQL server up now...
>
> cool.. give extra attention to the 'bayes_sql_override_username' 
> parameter.. that is where most users get stuck. The old jiscmail link 
> no longer works.. use this one instead:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.mailscanner/29437
>
> - dhawal
Funny you should mention that!

Followed the Wiki precisely, but got this error:

[99745] dbg: bayes: using username: root
[99745] dbg: bayes: database connection established
[99745] dbg: bayes: found bayes db version 3
[99745] dbg: bayes: unable to initialize database for root user, aborting!

I haven't yet found a fix.  The root user has a password assigned 
(particularly from remote machines!) that I haven't put into the 
config.  If you can point me to a fix I'll gladly update the wiki.

-- 
Jay Chandler
Network Administrator, Chapman University
714.628.7249 / chandler at chapman.edu
Today's Excuse: Processes running slowly due to weak power supply