Re: Bayes journal problem

[Theo Van Dinter]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:04:28AM -0800, Loren Wilton wrote:
> > Jan 25 12:31:13 alpha spamd[2021]: bayes: write failed to Bayes
> > journal /etc/mail/spamassassin/BAYES/bayes_journal (0 of 263856)! Jan
> > 25 12:31:13 alpha spamd[2021]: Exiting subroutine via last
> This still looks like a quota or permissions problem, or maybe a missing
> home directory for some user.

FWIW, the error occurs when the journal has been opened for writing (so in
theory the permissions and such should be ok), but any attempt to actually put
data into the journal fails, specifically that syswrite() (therefore the
system's write() function) returns an error.

I've attached a patch which you could use against M::SA::BayesStore::DBM
which makes that error message include the system's error string which
should hopefully be useful.

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Index: lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm
===================================================================
--- lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm     (revision 366688)
+++ lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm     (working copy)
@@ -1122,8 +1122,12 @@
 
     # argh, write failure, give up
     if (!defined $len || $len < 0) {
-      $len = 0 unless (defined $len);
-      warn "bayes: write failed to Bayes journal $path ($len of $nbytes)!\n";
+      my $err = '';
+      if (!defined $len) {
+       $len = 0;
+       $err = "  ($!)";
+      }
+      warn "bayes: write failed to Bayes journal $path ($len of 
$nbytes)!$err\n";
       last;
     }
 

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