Problem after Upgrade 4.72.1-1 to 4.74.15-1

Rob Kettle rob at kettle.org.uk
Fri Jan 9 16:50:42 GMT 2009


Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Rob Kettle a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> been running a Centos 5 system with 4.72.1-1 for some time and last 
>> night I upgraded to 4.74.15-1. The upgrade appeared to go OK.
>>
>> However when I run MailScanner no mail is processed and if I look at 
>> processes the MailScanner jobs show as [defunct] and are using high CPU.
>>
>> After some playing around I've sound that the cause is the setting
>>
>> Rebuild Bayes Every = 14400
>>
>> MailScanner will only work if I set this to Rebuild Bayes Every = 0
>>
>> Not sure why this is ?
>>
>> regards
>> Rob
>>
>
> Rob,
>
> I also run with Rebuild Bayes Every = 0 and I have the following entry 
> in root's crontab:
> 15 3 * * * (/sbin/service MailScanner stop; /usr/bin/sa-learn 
> --force-expire; sleep 60; /sbin/service MailScanner start)
>
> I get an email like this one every night:
>> Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>>          MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
>>          incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>> bayes: synced databases from journal in 0 seconds: 1163 unique 
>> entries (1857 total entries)
>> expired old bayes database entries in 53 seconds
>> 491688 entries kept, 115369 deleted
>> token frequency: 1-occurrence tokens: 0.00%
>> token frequency: less than 8 occurrences: 76.79%
>> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>>          incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>>          MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
> I know my server isn't accepting emails during that time but I can 
> live with it.
>
> Denis
>

Denis,

thanks for that response. That's pretty much what I'd decided to do.

regards
Rob

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