I messed up Bayes

[Scott Silva]

on 4/22/2011 4:44 AM Dimitri Yioulos spake the following:
> Greetz, all.
> 
> I hope it's appropriate to ask this here.  It may 
> have been answered in the past, but I wouldn't 
> even know what search terms to use:
> 
> Over the past few days, I've had some spam leaking 
> through what has been an old, but reliable system 
> (consisting of the latest Sendmail, MailScanner, 
> clamav, MailWatch, and an older Spamassassin, all 
> running on a CentOS box).  Up to this point, most 
> spam was easily tagged and dealt with.  So, I 
> figured I'd upgrade to the latest SA, thereby 
> using the most recent rules.  Good in theory, bad 
> in practice, because it messed up Bayes.  
> Regardless of whether I tried to do it manually, 
> or via MailWatch, when I did an sa-learn, I got 
> the following:
> 
> SA Learn: config: configuration 
> file "/etc/mail/spamassassin/20_advance_fee.cf" 
> requires version 3.003001 of SpamAssassin, but 
> this is code version 3.002005. Maybe you need to 
> use the -C switch, or remove the old config 
> files? Skipping this file 
> at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/Parser.pm 
> line 372.
> 
> That's just a snippet; every rule does the same.  
> So, I figured I'd role back to the previous 
> version of SA.  Trying sa-learn again, I now get 
> the following:
> 
> SA Learn: config: configuration 
> file "/etc/mail/spamassassin/20_advance_fee.cf" 
> requires version 3.002005 of SpamAssassin, but 
> this is code version 3.002004. Maybe you need to 
> use the -C switch, or remove the old config 
> files? Skipping this file 
> at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/Parser.pm 
> line 372.
> 
> In other words, Bayes (or something) seems to be 
> looking at a previous configuration, or 
> something.
> 
> I think (the operative word, here) that I made a 
> good backup copy of the Bayes DB.  That having 
> been said, how do I correct this problem?
> 
> As ever, many thanks.
> 
> Dimitri
> 
Did you install the new versions using a different method than the original
installs? ( IE-- RPM VS source install)