Hi Matt, I am new to spamassassin. Thank you so much for your help and Tyler too.
Bayes autolearn is enabled when I feed Bayes with the 1500 emails manually using the "sa-learn" command. Does it cause the problem? I also checked the Bayes database directory and found two stale lock files "bayes.lock...". One is pretty old, almost 4 months and the other was created during I feed bayes this time. Could I delete them? Thanks again. Jonathan > Jonathan Nie wrote: >> Greetings! >> >> I got a problem when I try to feed Bayes with large number of emails >> (over 1500). It just hang there and I got the the following error >> messages from maillog file: >> >> .....bayes: cannot open bayes databases /spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock >> failed: File exists >> >> Does anyone know how to fix it? > > SA believes another process is currently writing to the bayes database. > This > would be quite normal if a bayes expiry run was going on at the time. > > Wait a while and see if it still happens. > > If it still fails, shutdown ALL spamassassin operations, and try again. > > If it *still* fails, manually delete the bayes lock file. (it will be in > your > bayes directory. I think it's called bayes.mutex) > > > >
