Adam Wilbraham wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:22:13 -0600
Bookworm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It sounds like you have the spamd bayes database, and then you have
the database for whatever user you're actually running the test
from. I ran into this problem as well - it's a known issue, and I
wish the SA folks would come up with a way to run, as root, sa-learn
for a NON-ROOT bayes database. Vpopmail directories aren't readable
by spamd.
I'm not running vpopmail on this server. spamd is running as qscand,
however I've got my /etc/spamassasin/local.cf set to use a site wide
bayes database. I also have auto_whitelist configured, and I'm
wondering if this is such a good idea:
bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes
bayes_file_mode 0770
auto_whitelist_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/auto-whitelist
auto_whitelist_file_mode 0770
use_bayes 1
bayes_auto_learn 1
I have a script that runs every night that sa-learn's data from each
users SpamTrain folder into this site wide database. Now I seriously
hope that spamd isn't reading its bayes data from qscands home, as this
data hasn't been touched for 2 years:
ls -alh ~/qscand/.spamassassin
drwxr-xr-x 2 qscand qscand 4.0K 2004-07-07 11:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 qscand root 4.0K 2006-07-26 11:28 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 qscand qscand 20K 2004-01-06 16:43 auto-whitelist
-rw------- 1 qscand qscand 556K 2004-07-07 11:01 auto-whitelist.dir
-rw------- 1 qscand qscand 556K 2004-07-07 11:01 auto-whitelist.pag
-rw------- 1 qscand qscand 47K 2004-07-07 11:01 bayes_journal
-rw-r--r-- 1 qscand qscand 10M 2004-07-07 11:01 bayes_seen
-rw------- 1 qscand qscand 4.2M 2004-07-07 11:01 bayes_toks
-rw-r--r-- 1 qscand qscand 1.5K 2006-07-06 09:53 user_prefs
Maybe I should delete that and symlink in the files to the sitewide
bayes, just in case?
When I ran spamassassin on the item of spam I referred to earlier, it
was using my own user account. I don't even have any data in
my .spamassassin folder, so I can only assume that it was using the
site wide bayes for its checks then. Or could my bayes data be
completely messed up, and spamassassin was doing a better job of
identifying spam under my user account with no bayes data at all?
Once again many thanks for the suggestions and help...
Wilb
If you're running it as yourself, and spamassassin isn't running as your
username, then it's probably not working.
Check /home/spamd (or whatever user spamassassin runs as). See if
there's a bayes database in there. Also check YOUR home directory, and
see if you have bayes files. (locate -i bayes_journal works well for
this sort of thing)
BW
