I'm really confused and it's caused me some serious mail pile-ups today. I _thought_ I had Bayes configured so it's only manually trained by me so locking shouldn't be a problem. HOWEVER, I keep seeing the modification dates change for my Bayes database files and lockfiles come and go. The biggest problem came when I ended up with a deadlock and I had over 1800 messages backed up when I got back from a meeting. I'm still getting these e-mails out because of the normal amount of inbound mail traffic we experience.
I'm using MailScanner version 4.30.3 and SpamAssassin 2.63. Here are my pertinent Bayes entries from local.cf (which is a link to MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf for MailScanner): bayes_path /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes bayes_file_mode 0600 bayes_ignore_header X-Dickinson-MailScanner bayes_ignore_header X-Dickinson-MailScanner-SpamCheck bayes_ignore_header X-Dickinson-MailScanner-SpamScore bayes_ignore_header X-Dickinson-MailScanner-Information bayes_auto_learn 0 The only thing I changed recently happened yesterday. I noticed that when I ran sa-learn, I was creating new Bayes files in /.spamassassin and, since I had commented the 'bayes_path' entry out, I removed the comment and it seemed to work fine as long as I told sa-learn where the config file lived. What am I missing that it's still creating lockfiles? Here's what /var/spool/spamassassin looked like a few minutes ago: -rw------- 1 root system 26 May 11 16:03 bayes.lock -rw------- 1 root system 13899 May 11 16:04 bayes_journal -rw------- 1 root system 579653 May 11 16:03 bayes_journal.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 10223616 May 11 15:58 bayes_seen -rw------- 1 root system 4849664 May 11 16:04 bayes_toks Now that lockfile's gone and all looks normal again. But you can see clearly that these files ARE being updated on the fly in spite of "bayes_auto_learn" being turned off. Any help would be greatly appreciated. We're at crunch time here and students are e-mailing papers and the such like and delays like I'm seeing now are a killer. Thanks in advance. Don Newcomer Senior Manager, Systems Infrastructure Systems Department Library and Information Services Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 717-245-1256 (Voice) 717-245-1690 (FAX) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
