On Friday 01 May 2009, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >I would say it's less someone poisoning your DB and more your DB >becoming corrupt. As it says, a pack format of dec(73) is not a valid >value. It's set by the BayesStore module itself, not influenced by >the token in question. > >You can try to do a dump/verify/restore ... ala: > >sa-learn --sync >sa-learn --backup > db-dump >vi db-dump [... make sure things look as expected, etc ...] >[... backup your db, however appropriate, depending on your setup ...] >sa-learn --restore db-dump > >On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@verizon.net> wrote: >> The error: >> bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 73 at >> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line >> 1883. >> >> This seems to be repeated at about 3x for every spam I put in the spam >> folder. Obviously someone has figured out a way to poison the bayes_db. >> >> Is there a fix?
I haven't tried that, but did recover that users .spamassassin tree from this morning when it was ok. Didn't help. Where is that db kept? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You have a will that can be influenced by all with whom you come in contact.
