Bayes error messages when updating

[ashopandreas]

When I updated from 7.5.4 to 8 using the auto installer, I got a lot of error messages like this one:

bayes: cannot open bayes databases /var/qmail/mailnames/adomain.com/mailname/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

I got one of these for each mailbox on the machine.

The update still continued and everything seems to work but I'm worried that there might be something wrong that I haven't discovered yet. Does anyone know what this error message means and if something needs to be fixed?

 

[jahsh420]

We are getting the same errors, not sure if anything is wrong yet though. Did you find anything out?

 

[Traged1]

We also are getting this error after the upgrade any idea's?

 

[Traged1]

Ok I think I figuired it out.

To solve this issue, you need to remove the bayes files from the previous version of spamassassin and then rebuild the email addresses using the follwoing commands:

rm -f /var/qmail/mailnames/*/*/bayes_toks
rm -f /var/qmail/mailnames/*/*/auto-whitelist
rm -f /var/qmail/mailnames/*/*/auto-whitelist.lock
rm -f /var/qmail/mailnames/*/*/bayes_seen
rm -R -f /var/qmail/mailnames/*/*/.spamassassin
rm -f /var/qmail/mailnames/*/*/user_prefs
rm -f /var/qmail/mailnames/*/*/spamcheck*

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mchk --with-spam

 

[zymsys]

This seemed to fix it for me. YMMV.

find /var/qmail/mailnames -name bayes_toks -exec chown popuser.popuser {} \;

The problem was that the bases_toks files had changed ownership to root.root.