[Mimedefang] Cannot open bayes databases (lock fail)

[scuba at centroin.com.br]

Hi,

My server started to show this messages logs:

Apr 12 17:32:00 mailhost1 mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 26 stderr: Cannot
open bayes databases /var/bayes/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists

And I could see that:

#> ll /var/bayes/
total 39976
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel        30 Apr 12 17:21 bayes.lock
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       120 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.11746
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       180 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.15978
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       120 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.17358
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       240 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.17369
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel        30 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.17375
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       210 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.17377
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       240 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18575
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel        30 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18579
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       120 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18609
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       210 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18612
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel        90 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18617
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel        90 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18618
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel        30 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18620
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       150 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18658
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel        90 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18685
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel        30 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18696
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel        60 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.18700
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       203 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.7968
-rw-------  1 mimedefang  wheel       261 Apr 12 17:32 bayes.lock.mailhost1.mydomain.com.br.7975
-rw-r--r--  1 mimedefang  wheel   5840516 Apr 12 17:32 bayes_journal
-rw-r--r--  1 mimedefang  wheel   1359872 Apr 12 17:21 bayes_seen
-rw-r--r--  1 mimedefang  wheel  45400064 Apr 12 17:21 bayes_toks
-rw-r--r--  1 mimedefang  wheel     49152 Apr 12 16:55 bayes_toks.new

	The related config parameter are:

use_bayes               0
auto_learn              1
bayes_path                              /var/bayes/bayes
bayes_auto_expire                       1
bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam      0.5
bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam         5.5
bayes_expiry_max_db_size                100000
bayes_file_mode                         0644
bayes_ignore_header                     X-Spam-Status:
bayes_ignore_header                     X-Spam-Score:
#bayes_journal_max_size                 10240
bayes_journal_max_size                  51200
bayes_learn_to_journal                  1
bayes_min_ham_num                       100
bayes_min_spam_num                      100


	What is that?

- Marcelo