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AthlonRob writes: > Hello list- > > I've been using SA for a while, including the bayes stuff, training it > with sa-learn every few weeks on the latest spam samples and ham I > happen to have received. > > I just did... a root oops. > > I was running known spam mails through a script which does a > sa-learn --single --spam on the things, then it deletes them... the user > SA runs as cannot log in itself, so I have to su to the user from root. > I forgot that last step, so quickly killed the thing. It seems sa-learn > doesn't respond to CTRL+C, so I had to terminate it from another > terminal, as root. No problem, I think... only a few lost spams, and > maybe root's bayes database is broken - who cares? > > So I su'd to that user and ran the script. Uh-oh, I find I have a few > problems. I try other sa-learn commands - they all error out > identicaly: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.spamassassin$ sa-learn --rebuild > Cannot open bayes databases /var/amavis/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: > Cannot open bayes databases /var/amavis/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: File > exists > Cannot open bayes databases /var/amavis/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: File > exists > > So I google. And I google. And I search the gmane archives of this > list. And of the dev list. And I google. The only thing I found was > somebody else with a similar problem and a dude responding saying, "yep, > I have that happen when I do sa-learn as root" ... but no fixes. I > really don't want to wipe out my current database - I just don't have > enough spam laying around to retrain it (barely any gets through these > days)... ham is, of course, in great abundance. You should be OK -- just remove the ".lock" files. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQE/1+BlQTcbUG5Y7woRAjzsAJ4hAENfct+Ixuv6i80Q8MgJU6t/FQCgov2i 59eOkyi0BY6g0NUfYD6PxhI= =ogUX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
