RE: Re[6]: [vps-mail] Large Spamassassin bayes_toks file

["Lang Zerner" <lang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you tried running the command under the user's account?  Maybe it's
just looking for the .spamassassin directory in the current user's home
directory.  As root, try

su <username> 

before running your command line and see what happens.

Be seeing you...
--Lang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Smith
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:54 AM
> To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx; vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Re[6]: [vps-mail] Large Spamassassin bayes_toks file
> 
> 
> I've got plenty of ham and spam in some of my user's token 
> files with my
> /home/jsmith/.spamassassin having well over the 5 meg limit. The point
> Abigail notes that the debug reports shows no ham is because 
> it is looking
> at /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks and I can't figure out how 
> to convince it
> to look at my user's database's instead. 
> 
> And after a month or so of "training" it and building up a 
> database of spam
> & ham, I don't want to tell my client's that they need to 
> start over again
> from zero every time it reaches 5 megs because we can't 
> figure out how to
> use the expire feature on a shared VPS2 server.
> 
> Matt's suggestion of doing a symlink from root to each user's 
> files may be
> the manual hack I'll have to try until we can figure out how 
> to make this
> process less cumbersome. Any better solutions that anyone can 
> come up with
> to try?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Smith
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Abigail Marshall
> > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:28 AM
> > To: Jim Smith
> > Subject: Re[6]: [vps-mail] Large Spamassassin bayes_toks file
> > 
> > JS> Ok, I upgraded to Spamassassin's version 2.63 from 2.61. 
> > I'm still 
> > JS> not able to reduce the size of my token or journal.
> > 
> > Jim, your lint shows the following result:
> > 
> > JS> debug: bayes: found bayes db version 2
> > JS> debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 0 ham(s) 
> > in Bayes DB 
> > JS> < 200
> > 
> > Bayes need at least 200 ham emails to function.
> > 
> > Maybe the problem is that the program won't allow reduction 
> > in the token database unless there is the minimum required 
> > number of spam + ham.
> > 
> > This makes sense from a programming standpoint, because if a 
> > database function eliminating older tokens in order to reduce 
> > the size of the database were to allow the corpus to go below 
> > the minimum requisite to function, then the Bayes functioning 
> > would be compromised.
> > 
> > I really think you need to feed your system a bunch of ham.
> > Or else delete your entire database and start over, because 
> > what you have is worthless. Bayes isn't running in any case 
> > without sufficient ham.
> > 
> > -Abigail
> > 
> > 
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