Hi, I've tried moving the file. What happens is that a new one is created; usually belonging to a different user on the system and then, that get stuck. In other words the problem keeps on reoccurring.
Joe -----Original Message----- From: crisppy fernandes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 July 2005 12:05 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Fwd: Autolearn problem ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: crisppy fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 6, 2005 3:33 PM Subject: Re: Autolearn problem To: Joe Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 7/6/05, Joe Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Crisppy, > Yes I've run that command and the output seems just fine. > I've now noticed however that in my bayes directory there is a (strange) > file called auto-whitelist.mutex. The file only has rw permissions for the > user and the file seems to be created with the user and group of a given > user on the system (e.g. me when I check my mail...not a system account). > Also the file doesn't seem to be removed at any point. I suspect this is a > lock file that is not being removed. Could this be the reason why I'm > getting autolearn=fail? > > Regards, Can't say for sure but definitely you don't require this kind of .mutex file in bayes directory so you can check by moving or even by removing that file from that dir. and then test by sending few mails. I hope it should work. Crisppy f.
