BAYES issues

[Anthony Peacock]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 16/02/07, Anthony Peacock <a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Jay Chandler wrote:
>> > Jay Chandler wrote:
>> >> <snip>What's more is, I got that output from crontab, running the
>> >> command as the postfix user...
>> >>
>> >> So I'm... rather confused.  What should Bayes be showing as in my 
>> logs?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Interesting.
>> >
>> > Just linted and got this:
>> > config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_99
>> > config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_95
>> > config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_00
>> > config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_05
>> >
>> > Is there a Bayes ruleset file that I'm potentially missing?
>> >
>>
>> Hmm!  That does look like you have a screwed up SA configuration.
>>
>> Those are standard rules that come with SA, so if they are missing you
>> have a bad installation.
>>
>> The standard rule file with the Bayes rules in is called 23_bayes.cf
>>
>> It should be installed in /usr/local/share/spamassassin
>>
>> If you run sa-update you may also have a newer copy in
>>
>> /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org  (or similar
>> depending on SA version)
>>
>> I am still confused, as you seemed to be able to get a Bayes score when
>> running from the command line, but not when running with MailScanner.
>>
>> There must be something different with the environments between those 
>> two.
>>
> I'd suspect the settings in MailScanner for things like "SpamAssassin
> Local State Dir" to be wrong. Since Jays SpamAssassin seems to get
> along famously without any particular setting, I think he should try
> setting that to a blank value (so that the "built-into-SA-defaults"
> kick in, wrt finding the sa-updated stuff), and if that fails set it
> to something like /var/lib/spamassassin (but only if it still fails).

That was my initial thought.  But even if that is set incorrectly 
shouldn't SA 'fall back' on the base installed versions in /usr/local/share?

Checking that setting will certainly help.

> ... Or am I reading this backwards? Could it be some type of bum
> sa-update not copying everything as it should to the new location...
> Jay, if you "find /var -name \*bayes.cf -print" what do you get? Did
> you run/do you run periodically sa-update?

At the moment I suspect something like a screwed up sa-update download.


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