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



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