On 8 Feb 2005, at 02:20, Justin Mason wrote:
> alright, I'll bite...
Excellent - you always get better diagnostics from the mechanic than
from the oily rag :-)
> it looks like somehow the locking failed, and it allowed you to
> overwrite
> parts of the db while another process wrote at the same time
OK - I guess I should have thought of that as a possibility but I would
have thought that
> ; obv. this isn't supposed to be possible. ;)
However, perhaps the setup is responsible q.v.
> (is this in 3.0.x? or 2.6x?)
It's in 3.0.2 on RH9. But the setup is a little unusual. The system in
question runs Communigate Pro and the interface to SA is CGPSA ver. 1.4
CGPSA doesn't use either spamc or spamd but instead it uses
Mail::SpamAssassin directly. I don't know if this can have any impact -
I'd have imagined that something low-level like locking would be done
in the library, and a cursory glance at SpamAssassin.pm looks like this
IS indeed the case, but what would I know ?
Niall
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