Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matt Kettler wrote on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:17:12 -0500: > 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. Well, but this

Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
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 sh

Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-09 Thread Kai Schaetzl
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, ind

Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-09 Thread Matt Kettler
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Matt Kettler wrote on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:08:49 -0500: > > >> bayes_file_mode 0777 >> > > well, 0666 is definitely sufficient ;-) > No it's not. The "mode" is really a mask, and is sometimes used in the creation of directories. Files will be created at 666 when 077

Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-09 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matt Kettler wrote on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:08:49 -0500: > bayes_file_mode 0777 well, 0666 is definitely sufficient ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-08 Thread Matt Kettler
boogybren wrote: > The reason why I use the bayes path is because on my server (virtual private > freebsd), the SA install writes the config files to > /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin instead of /etc/mail/spamassassin. So if I > don't specify bayes_path, then it will stick the bayes stuff under >

Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-08 Thread Matt Kettler
Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Fri, January 9, 2009 03:08, Matt Kettler wrote: > > >> bayes_file_mode 0777 >> > > and any user on that host can overwrite it > > Yep, that's what you need if you're sharing a single bayes DB amongst all your users. They all need to be able to write it. The al

Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-08 Thread boogybren
message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bayes_journal-tp21364727p21365382.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-08 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, January 9, 2009 03:08, Matt Kettler wrote: > bayes_file_mode 0777 and any user on that host can overwrite it -- Benny Pedersen Need more webspace ? http://www.servage.net/?coupon=cust37098

Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-08 Thread Matt Kettler
boogybren wrote: > I just upgraded from SA 3.0.1 to 3.2.5 today. The bayes_journal keeps > disappearing and SA kept complaining it didn't have permission to re-create > it. > > So I chmod 777 the parent directory (/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin) and > SA finally recreated

Re: bayes_journal

2009-01-08 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, January 9, 2009 02:37, boogybren wrote: > Is there anyway to just have either root update > bayes_journal or leave the bayes_journal there with > 666 permissions? remove bayes_path in your config if defined in sitewide it needs root to update it, but if you use bayes_path in u

bayes_journal

2009-01-08 Thread boogybren
I just upgraded from SA 3.0.1 to 3.2.5 today. The bayes_journal keeps disappearing and SA kept complaining it didn't have permission to re-create it. So I chmod 777 the parent directory (/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin) and SA finally recreated the bayes_journal file. However it looks li

Re: bayes_journal mysteriously disappears - nevermind, foundit

2008-11-24 Thread Matt Kettler
David C. McCall wrote: > DOH! I didn't include --sync in periodic sa-learn runs > > > slaps his forehead and returns into cave. > > > :-( > You shouldn't need --sync, unless you want to force the journal to be synced and deleted when you run sa-learn. In general it will decide if it needs

Re: bayes_journal mysteriously disappears - nevermind, foundit

2008-11-23 Thread David C. McCall
ough spamassassin > :0fw > | /usr/local/bin/spamc -f > > > Sun Nov 23 19:26:31 PST 2008 > total 6.1M > 8.0K drwxrwxr-x 2 lynnc spam 4.0K Nov 23 19:16 . > 516K drwxr-xr-x 54 lynnc lynnc 508K Nov 23 17:19 .. > 592K -rw-rw-r-- 1 lynnc spam 668K Nov 23 19:16 a

bayes_journal mysteriously disappears

2008-11-23 Thread David C. McCall
-rw-r-- 1 lynnc spam 668K Nov 23 19:16 auto-whitelist 8.0K -rw--- 1 spam spam 3.6K Nov 23 19:16 bayes_journal 936K -rw-rw-r-- 1 lynnc spam 1.3M Nov 23 19:16 bayes_seen 4.1M -rw--- 1 spam spam 5.1M Nov 23 19:16 bayes_toks 12K -rw-rw-r-- 1 lynnc spam 5.9K Oct 13 18:03 user_

Re: bayes_journal

2006-11-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:08:46PM +0100, Andrea Bencini wrote: > I have bayes_seen and bayes_toks, but I have not bayes_journal. Why? The journal goes away when its data is synced into the DB. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: Direct from the Ministry of Silly Walks. pgpm0Uu7Gw5DD.

bayes_journal

2006-11-02 Thread Andrea Bencini
I installed spamassassin-3.1.3. I have bayes_seen and bayes_toks, but I have not bayes_journal. Why? Can you help me? Thank Andrea

bayes_journal file and bayes value at spam.log

2006-04-12 Thread martin
after the spamassassin had run fine around 2 days, i found that at bayes directory (set to /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/), it had a new plain text file bayes_journal created and at spam.log, at even scanned mail, a bayes value like 2006-04-13 03:07:34 [11243] i: result: Y 17 - BAYES_99

RE: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-27 Thread Gary V
Hi Gary V, My bayes files are under "/var/amavis/.spamassassin" (sorry for the typo) $daemon_user = 'clamav' $daemon_group = 'clamav' clamav:x:1005:103::/var/amavis:/bin/sh Thanks for clarifying, everything should be OK then. Then you should create a cron job to run sa-learn --sync --for

RE: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-27 Thread MJ
Hi Gary V, Sorry for the delayed reply. >A clue was given to you in a previous post: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=spamassassin-users&m=114269315700923&w=2 >But I am not getting the full picture. You said earlier that the bayes files >were in /var/amavis/.spamassassin yet you say you changed

RE: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-21 Thread Gary V
Hi, Many thanks Theo Van Dinter, Gary V and others who helped. As suggested by Theo Van Dinter, I change the home directory of clamav user as /var/amavisd and then executed "/usr/local/bin/sa-learn -D --sync" it took around 6 hours but now "bayes_journal" has been reduced from

RE: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-20 Thread MJ
Hi, Many thanks Theo Van Dinter, Gary V and others who helped. As suggested by Theo Van Dinter, I change the home directory of clamav user as /var/amavisd and then executed "/usr/local/bin/sa-learn -D --sync" it took around 6 hours but now "bayes_journal" has been reduced from

Re: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread jdow
From: "MJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >You can and probably should remove the journal file. These are unlearned tokens, so they aren't affecting the classification of mail. The journal is >so huge that it might take days to learn, and it also indicates that you are accumulating new material fairly qui

Re: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread mouss
MJ a écrit : > Hi Gary, > > >>The user 'clamav' should have a home dir of /var/amavis otherwise I > > wouldn't > >>think the spamassasin files would end up in /var/amavis/.spamassassin. > > >>what does this say? >>cat /etc/passwd | grep clamav > > > clamav:x:1005:103::/home/clamav:/bin/fal

RE: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread Gary V
Hi Gary, >The user 'clamav' should have a home dir of /var/amavis otherwise I wouldn't >think the spamassasin files would end up in /var/amavis/.spamassassin. >what does this say? >cat /etc/passwd | grep clamav clamav:x:1005:103::/home/clamav:/bin/false >To run sa-learn as this user (who does

RE: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread MJ
Hi Gary, >The user 'clamav' should have a home dir of /var/amavis otherwise I wouldn't >think the spamassasin files would end up in /var/amavis/.spamassassin. >what does this say? >cat /etc/passwd | grep clamav clamav:x:1005:103::/home/clamav:/bin/false >To run sa-learn as this user (who does

Re: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread Gary V
On Samstag, 18. März 2006 11:51 MJ wrote: > No, there is another user for daemon with a false shell, can't be use > to login as a normal user. The user 'clamav' should have a home dir of /var/amavis otherwise I wouldn't think the spamassasin files would end up in /var/amavis/.spamassassin. wh

RE: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread MJ
>You can and probably should remove the journal file. These are unlearned tokens, so they aren't affecting the classification of mail. The journal is >so huge that it might take days to learn, and it also indicates that you are accumulating new material fairly quickly. So losing the current journ

Re: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread Loren Wilton
Title: RE: Huge size of bayes_journal You can and probably should remove the journal file.  These are unlearned tokens, so they aren't affecting the classification of mail.  The journal is so huge that it might take days to learn, and it also indicates that you are accumulating new mat

RE: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread MJ
Title: RE: Huge size of bayes_journal Hi Theo, I manage to switch to that user and executed the sa-learn command but since it has it' own home directory it created new .spamassassin directory under it's home directory. Actually "/var/amavisd/.spamassassin" which has

Re: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Samstag, 18. März 2006 11:51 MJ wrote: > No, there is another user for daemon with a false shell, can't be use > to login as a normal user. su -l $USER_AMAVIS_RUNS_AS -s /bin/bash That way you can run as the user with bash. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc --- it-management Michae

Re: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 01:51:45PM +0300, MJ wrote: > Thanks for you quick response. :) > >The "#" implies you're running as root. Is that the same user as > amavis runs as? > > No, there is another user for daemon with a false shell, can't be use to > login as a normal user. You need to someh

RE: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread MJ
Hi Theo van Dinter, Thanks for you quick response. >The "#" implies you're running as root. Is that the same user as amavis runs as? No, there is another user for daemon with a false shell, can't be use to login as a normal user. >This isn't the same path as you posted before, so I'm not surpr

Re: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 01:07:30PM +0300, MJ wrote: > I did but still the same size, following is the output. > bash-2.03# /usr/local/bin/sa-learn -D --sync The "#" implies you're running as root. Is that the same user as amavis runs as? [...] > [17329] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/O //.spam

RE: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread MJ
Hi Theo Van Dinter >I don't know if amavisd does something special wrt bayes, Do you need me to send amavisd.conf? usually they (mailing list of amavisd-new) suggest to post SA related issues to this list and not on Amavisd-new list. >As the appropriate user, run "sa-learn -D --sync" and see wh

Re: Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
t could be the reason? As the appropriate user, run "sa-learn -D --sync" and see what happens. > -rw--- 1 clamav clamav 3441876576 Mar 18 12:01 bayes_journal > -rw--- 1 clamav clamav 167813120 Mar 18 12:01 bayes_seen > -rw--- 1 clamav clamav 3361177

Huge size of bayes_journal

2006-03-18 Thread MJ
335904768 Mar 18 12:01 auto-whitelist -rw--- 1 clamav clamav 6 Mar 18 12:01 auto-whitelist.mutex -rw--- 1 clamav clamav 2196 Mar 18 12:01 bayes.mutex -rw--- 1 clamav clamav 3441876576 Mar 18 12:01 bayes_journal -rw--- 1 clamav clamav 167813120 Mar

Re: bayes_journal permissions

2005-12-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Pollywog wrote: > On 12/06/2005 12:27 am, Matt Kettler wrote: > >>David Buttrick wrote: >> >>>Is there a control for the permissions on the bayes_journal file? >>> >>>I'm using a shared bayes db, and users do not have permissiosn on the >&g

Re: bayes_journal permissions

2005-12-05 Thread David Buttrick
Thanks! On Dec 5, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: David Buttrick wrote: Is there a control for the permissions on the bayes_journal file? I'm using a shared bayes db, and users do not have permissiosn on the file because it is created chmod 600. Is there something i can do i

Re: bayes_journal permissions

2005-12-05 Thread Pollywog
On 12/06/2005 12:27 am, Matt Kettler wrote: > David Buttrick wrote: > > Is there a control for the permissions on the bayes_journal file? > > > > I'm using a shared bayes db, and users do not have permissiosn on the > > file because it is created chmod 600. > &

Re: bayes_journal permissions

2005-12-05 Thread Matt Kettler
David Buttrick wrote: > Is there a control for the permissions on the bayes_journal file? > > I'm using a shared bayes db, and users do not have permissiosn on the > file because it is created chmod 600. > > Is there something i can do in the config files? What's

bayes_journal permissions

2005-12-05 Thread David Buttrick
Is there a control for the permissions on the bayes_journal file? I'm using a shared bayes db, and users do not have permissiosn on the file because it is created chmod 600. Is there something i can do in the config files? Thanks. David

Bayes_journal and locking

2005-05-19 Thread Rocky Olsen
on our mailcluster we have spamassassin running with bayes turned on, but auto learning turned off, we then hand train the bayesdb and push it out to all the machines. However weven with bayes_auto_learn turned off, spamd is still creating the bayes_journal files, which isn't a problem

Re: SA 3.02 - How to relocate auto-whitelist, bayes_journal, bayes_seen and bayes_toks to another device?

2005-02-18 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
r on this system not root), I need to relocate auto-whitelist, bayes_journal, bayes_seen and bayes_toks which resides in the default ~/.spamassassin directory to another device. With Linux you can't simply do a link ('ln') across devices, so the files need to actually be moved. I

Re: SA 3.02 - How to relocate auto-whitelist, bayes_journal, bayes_seen and bayes_toks to another device?

2005-02-18 Thread David A . Roth
t root), I need to relocate auto-whitelist, bayes_journal, bayes_seen and bayes_toks which resides in the default ~/.spamassassin directory to another device. With Linux you can't simply do a link ('ln') across devices, so the files need to actually be moved. I want to leave

Re: SA 3.02 - How to relocate auto-whitelist, bayes_journal, bayes_seen and bayes_toks to another device?

2005-02-18 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
David A. Roth wrote: I know this might seem like an odd request for those of you with tons of disk space available so please be kind. I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.0.2. For server space reasons (I'm a user on this system not root), I need to relocate auto-whitelist, bay

Re: SA 3.02 - How to relocate auto-whitelist, bayes_journal, bayes_seen and bayes_toks to another device?

2005-02-18 Thread Kris Deugau
"David A. Roth" wrote: > I know this might seem like an odd request for those of you with tons > of disk space available so please be kind. I'm running SpamAssassin > version 3.0.2. For server space reasons (I'm a user on this system > not root), I need to reloca

SA 3.02 - How to relocate auto-whitelist, bayes_journal, bayes_seen and bayes_toks to another device?

2005-02-18 Thread David A . Roth
I know this might seem like an odd request for those of you with tons of disk space available so please be kind. I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.0.2. For server space reasons (I'm a user on this system not root), I need to relocate auto-whitelist, bayes_journal, bayes_seen and

Re: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied

2005-01-29 Thread jdow
gure the system. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Chris Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm seeing in my maillog file (SA 3.x running in Debug mode) the following: > > cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: > Permission de

RE: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Harvey
Ok, now I'm noticing this Creating default_prefs [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs] Creating default_prefs [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs] Is there a file path I can set so that the new working directory is my new .spamassasin directory I created? I specifically set the bayes and the autowhitelis

RE: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Harvey
> > First, I assume you're using a bayes_path statement to force the bayes DB > for all users to be in roots homedir. Yep! > > If so, DO NOT proceed.. > In order for your bayes DB to be wide open, ALL users must have r_x access > to /root... that's a bad thing that you don't want to give them.

Re: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied

2005-01-28 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:26 PM 1/28/2005, Chris Harvey wrote: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied This is right after all the bayes token statements. It suggests it's a problem, but I don't seem to be able to fix it. My default bayes locatio

cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Harvey
I'm seeing in my maillog file (SA 3.x running in Debug mode) the following: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored: Permission denied This is right after all the bayes token statements. It suggests it's a problem, but I don't seem to be able

bayes_journal problem

2004-12-29 Thread Obantec Support
Hi I am using 2.64 with local.cf settings bayes_path /var/spamd/.spamassassin/bayes bayes_file_mode 777 to get round ownership and other issues like space under users accounts. problem i have is with bayes_journal , it always seem to be owned by user.group of the mail owner. log shows Dec 29

RE: Oh where, oh where does my bayes_journal go?

2004-10-08 Thread Ed Kasky
ning as user spamd. Database is in /home/spamd When I pipe false negatives through sa-learn, the bayes_journal file disappears. Is this by design or is there something I need to change or fix? Ed . . . . . . . . Avenge yourself. Live long enough to be a problem to your children.

RE: Oh where, oh where does my bayes_journal go?

2004-10-08 Thread Nate Schindler
riginal Message- From: Ed Kasky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 3:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Oh where, oh where does my bayes_journal go? I am currently running SA 3.0.0 with a site wide bayes and spamd running as user spamd. Database is in /home/spamd Wh

Oh where, oh where does my bayes_journal go?

2004-10-08 Thread Ed Kasky
I am currently running SA 3.0.0 with a site wide bayes and spamd running as user spamd. Database is in /home/spamd When I pipe false negatives through sa-learn, the bayes_journal file disappears. Is this by design or is there something I need to change or fix? Thanks... Ed