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 check
>sa-learn --backup > db-dump check >vi db-dump [... make sure things look as expected, etc ...] Using vim I found about 10 lines that were really long, 200+ chars, all ending in @casabyte.com, and nuked them. That is very close to a 1 million line file! >[... backup your db, however appropriate, depending on your setup ...] >sa-learn --restore db-dump Did this twice, the first time I found spamc trying to use it, so I waited till it was done and repeated this operation. Didn't help, maillog is still about 2 screens full of this error for every message processed. Next? Thanks. >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? -- 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) Sand fleas eating the Internet cables
