On 28/09/2006, at 12:27 PM, John wrote:
Hi list,
My e-mail isn't getting through to the mail box.
Syslog keeps showing bayes: expire_old_tokens: child processing
timeout.
After Googling I've found a comment that suggests a manual Bayes
expire run but doesn't go on to describe how to do it.
Has anyone struck this before and how do I sort it, please?
TIA
John
Hi John,
While spamassassin is expiring old records from the bayesian
database, it can't be used for filtering. Basically spamd/spamc will
have to wait until the expire is finished before they can process any
pending messages - hence the timeouts.
To do manual expire run:
sa-learn --force-expire --sync
When that's done, you should see something like this:
expired old bayes database entries in 14 seconds
160491 entries kept, 165910 deleted
token frequency: 1-occurrence tokens: 58.52%
token frequency: less than 8 occurrences: 24.85%
You may need to wrap up the "sa-learn" in su so that your expire run
uses the same user as the normal spamassassin process. Running as
root might leave some files with root-only permissions which will
break normal scanning etc. (seen this on FreeBSD) plus if you're
doing per-user spamassassin bayes corpus, running as root wont pick
up the user-specific bayes data.
Cheers,
James
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