On Saturday 13 September 2008 21:58, aladdin wrote: > On Saturday 13 September 2008 20:38, aladdin wrote: > > On Saturday 13 September 2008 20:30, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > > On 13/09/2008 8:20 PM, aladdin wrote: > > > > On Saturday 13 September 2008 20:00, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > > >> Check to make sure that network tests aren't disabled. Many distro > > > >> packages have network tests turned off my default. Not sure where > > > >> Debian would configure this, sorry. > > > >> > > > >> Daryl > > > > > > > > Thanks for the reply! > > > > > > > > Where would I check that and what would I look for? Can you tell > > > > that from either the header or the config file I posted? > > > > > > Not sure where Debian keeps its daemon config files, but you can > > > probably find out by running the following command and looking for "-L" > > > or "--local" in the output. > > > > > > ps aux | grep spamd > > > > > > > > > Daryl > > > > Thanks again! > > > > Yeah, if you saw my last email, I checked that very thing. I believe > > that all my config files are in /etc/spamassassin; that is where the > > local.cf came from, and there are init.pre and v310, v312.... files in > > there as well. That's where I looked to see if it appeared the networks > > tests (razor, pyzor, etc.) where turned on, and they *appear* to be;-). > > A bit more data- lo & behold, I checked the log files, and here is what > they say: > > ####################################################### > Sep 13 21:19:37 anw-dev spamd[17910]: bayes: cannot open bayes > databases /home/anw/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: > Sep 13 21:20:37 anw-dev last message repeated 5 times > Sep 13 21:24:41 anw-dev spamd[17910]: bayes: cannot open bayes > databases /home/anw/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: > Sep 13 21:24:41 anw-dev last message repeated 2 times > Sep 13 21:24:41 anw-dev spamd[17910]: bayes: cannot open bayes > databases /home/anw/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: Inappropriate > ioctl for device > Sep 13 21:35:55 anw-dev spamd[17910]: bayes: cannot open bayes > databases /home/anw/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: > Sep 13 21:35:55 anw-dev last message repeated 2 times > Sep 13 21:35:55 anw-dev spamd[17910]: bayes: cannot open bayes > databases /home/anw/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: Inappropriate > ioctl for device > Sep 13 21:39:57 anw-dev spamd[17910]: bayes: cannot open bayes > databases /home/anw/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: > ######################################################### > > So, evidently, it can't find my bayes database. So, since I want to use a > system-wide database, where is it (/usr/share/spamassassin?, which has a > lot of likely looking files in it), and how do I tell spamd to use it? > > This directory has a lot of bayes, razor, pyzor, etc. filenames in it, and > this could be my problem.
Well, I have run (from the time of my last post) spamd with this command line: /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir=/usr/share/spamassassin -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid and I still have the same problem with emails and the same log entries. -- Thanks and regards, Allen Williams Office: +1.321.309.7931 Mobile: +1.321.258.1272
