I'm still having this locking problem, so I've disabled bayes. I'll look to either moving to spamd/spamc or amavisd-new over the next couple of weeks to see if that resolves my lock contention problems.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:51:49PM -0800, Chip Paswater wrote: > > >I'm having some trouble with Bayes. Occasionally, mail will stop flowing > > >in my system. This is because my procmail spamassassin.lock file becomes > > >stale. I've futher discovered that it's because the bayes DB gets locked > > >and somehow dies midway during a rebuild. This causes my whole mail system > > >to come to a screeching halt, and I have to go manually clear lock files > > >manually. > > > > spamassassin.lock file ? > > > > Sounds like you're using the sample procmail script that uses a lockfile to > > serialize local mail delivery so that only one copy of spamassassin can > > ever run at once. Bad idea. > > It's per the instructions that I followed in the docs. > > > Is your server delivering mail just to you or to many people ? > > My server delivers mail to a handful of people, but I'm the only one using > spamassassin. I should have clarified. My server dosen't come to a > screeching halt, but MY mail does. Postfix continues to relay and delivery > to other accounts just fine. > > > I'd suggest you get rid of that lockfile, and look at an alternate way of > > limiting the number of simultaneous spamassassin (or spamc) instances to a > > managable but >1 amount. > > Where is this documented? > > But regardless of that, if you would have read my entire post you would > have seen that my problem is not with procmail or spamassassin.lock, but > instead with the Bayes locking mechanism, and bayes not properly cleaning > up it's lockfile after a crash or failed rebuild. I'm trying to figure out > how to debug THAT problem. > > > In fact if you search the archives for messages from me you should find a > > procmail script I posted that lets you limit the local delivery concurancy > > to a manageable level. Also if you're using spamc, (and you probably should > > be) look at the -m option of spamd.... > > I'd rather not run daemonized unless I go server-wide. Besides, if I'm > having bayes locking problems, how will those go away if I'm daemonized? > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
