[Mimedefang] Bayes locking fails

Graham Dunn gdunn at inscriber.com
Mon Dec 1 10:04:58 EST 2003


On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:14:16PM +0100, Andrzej Marecki wrote:
> Graham Dunn <gdunn at inscriber.com> wrote:
> 
[snip]
> > 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.

Folling David's advice, I upgraded the Unix::syslog module to 0.100,
and now no more segfaults. I cleared out the stale lockfiles and I'm
not gettting any more lock file errors.

David, I'm not sure how you knew that
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2003-November/018346.html
had anything to do with my problem, but colour me impressed.

Graham



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