Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Matt Kettler wrote on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:57:17 -0500: > > >> No it's not. The "mode" is really a mask, and is sometimes used in the >> creation of directories. >> > > well, it has worked all the years for me on those setups that use dbm > storage. What directories should be created there? We only have db, index, > journal, mutexes, locks and such, no directories. > My guess is it's used in the initial creation of .spamassassin, if none exists when bayes kicks up. Although one of the devs (theo?) once mentioned temp directories being created... not sure when that would ever happen.
> >> Files will be created at 666 when 0777 is used, >> > > Ok, I didn't know that. > Yeah, the bayes config options are quite a bit misleading. bayes_path isn't a path, it's a path plus partial filename. bayes_mode isn't a mode, it's a mask. Great stuff eh?
