Hello David,
Friday, September 12, 2003, 11:04:28 AM, you wrote: DBF> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Abigail Marshall wrote: >> >> >> I don't know but I have the same problem. It seems to >> happen when my bayes_toks file reaches about 5k. >> >> So far, I've lost the bayes database 3 times. If I monitor >> it closely, I can recover it as my system has a 24-hour >> backup, so I can retrieve the previous days' bayes_toks >> file, delete the bayes_seen file, and then run sa-learn >> --rebuild to recover function. DBF> Abigail, DBF> Which variety of database are you using in your perl installation? DBF> The "DB_File" module (based upon the Sleepycat Berkeley DB) is DBF> quite reliable. (In fact, SA 2.60 demands it, won't work with any DBF> other). I don't know - how do I find out? (Basically, I'm running SA 2.54 with whatever is the default for spamd - it's on a FreeBSD system) DBF> Now it is the case that certain older versions of the Berkeley DB DBF> had file locking issues on some platforms, so it would be advisable DBF> to be sure that your DB_File module is using a reasonably new DBF> version of Berkeley DB (V3.3 or so). Sounds like this might be it, because when this happens, I do see file locking problems when running sa-learn -D -Abigail ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk