[Mimedefang] Bayes errors in logfile
Cormack, Ken
Ken.Cormack at roadway.com
Fri Aug 12 11:41:24 EDT 2005
Group,
I've just awakened AWL, and global bayes auto-learn in MIMEDefang, and I'm
seeing the following errors, in my log.
Aug 12 10:53:52 mail01 mimedefang-multiplexor[9340]: Slave 9 stderr: lock:
9340 unlink of temp lock
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/bayes.lock.mail01.mydomain.com.9340 failed: No such
file or directory
Aug 12 10:53:52 mail01 mimedefang-multiplexor[9340]: Slave 9 stderr: Cannot
open bayes databases /var/spool/MIMEDefang/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: No such
file or directory
And like this...
Aug 12 11:27:12 mail01 mimedefang-multiplexor[22720]: Slave 6 stderr: lock:
22720 unlink of temp lock
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/bayes.lock.mail01.mydomain.com.22720 failed: No such
file or directory Cannot open bayes databases /var/spool/MIMEDefang/bayes_*
R/W: lock failed: No such file or directory
In my /var/spool/MIMEDefang directory, I see the following relevant files:
total 33604
drwx------ 6 defang defang 340 Aug 12 11:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Aug 12 10:56 ..
-rwx------ 1 defang defang 679936 Aug 12 11:07 awl
-rw------- 1 defang defang 25 Aug 12 10:57 bayes.lock
-rw------- 1 defang defang 12288 Aug 12 10:57 bayes_seen
-rw------- 1 defang defang 90112 Aug 12 10:57 bayes_toks
>From time to time, I also see a lockfile called something like
"bayes.lock.mail01.mydomain.com.SOME_PID", with perms of 0600, u=defang
g=defang.
The bayes configuration lines in my sa-mimedefang.cf look like this:
# Enable Bayes
use_bayes 1
use_bayes_rules 1
bayes_path /var/spool/MIMEDefang/bayes
bayes_file_mode 0700
bayes_auto_learn 1
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Mail seems to be flowing, but
I'm concerned/confused about the logged errors.
This system is RH 8.0, with sendmail 8.13.4, MIMEDefang 2.52, and
Mail::SpamAssassin 3.000004
Thanks in advance.
Ken
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