[Mimedefang] Bayes locking fails

[Andrzej Marecki]

Graham Dunn <gdunn at inscriber.com> wrote:

> mimedefang-2.38,
> p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60
> on Freebsd 4.8-STABLE

I'm using the same version of MD & SA unde Solaris with...

> # Enable Bayesian learning
> auto_learn 1
> use_bayes 1
> bayes_path /var/spool/MIMEDefang/bayes
> bayes_file_mode 0666
> 
> 
> I'm getting errors like the following:

I'm starting to get the same errors:

> 
> Nov 28 10:57:16 ureshii mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 1 stderr: Cannot
> open bayes databases /var/spool/MIMEDefang/bayes_* R/W: lock failed:
> File exists

[...]

when:

[...]

> -rw-rw-rw-  1 mailnull  mailnull  5193728 Nov 28 11:01 bayes_toks

...bayes_toks is getting that large. Plus, the one (or more) slaves
get very busy then.

> I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting.

I suspect this is a problem with sa-learn.

Andrzej
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