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From: Clifton Royston (cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com)
Date: Thu Dec 23 2004 - 14:17:57 EST

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On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:11:27PM +0100, Pavel Urban wrote:
> Clifton Royston wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:35:29PM +0100, Pavel Urban wrote:
> >>we're running two instances of amavisd-new with different configuration
> >>files. They are using the same clamav daemon (communicating through TCP
> >>socket - without problem) and the same SA database (problem?). We're
> >>seeing many SA timeouts... I'm adding them to this mail. Is this
> >>configuration ok, or should I change it? If you need more information,
> >>please tell me - I'm pretty new to this business ;-) Thanks!
> >
> > Just off the cuff, it looks like part of it might be DB locking
> >issues, because a number of these are being interrupted in
> >.../Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore.pm (though some are elsewhere.) Have
> >you been sure to set your amavisd instances up with separate DB
> >directories both for SA's Bayesian databases?
>
> We have two configuration files for amavisd:
>
> [root@antivir3 root]# grep '^$MYHOME' /etc/amavisd.conf
> /etc/amavisd-out.conf
> /etc/amavisd.conf:$MYHOME = '/var/spool/amavis'; # (default is
> '/var/amavis')
> /etc/amavisd-out.conf:$MYHOME = '/var/spool/amavis-out'; # (default is
> '/var/amavis')
>
> We are using the same SA database, hovewer.
>
> [root@antivir3 root]# head -30 /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
...
> use_bayes 1
> bayes_path /var/spool/amavis/.spamassassin/bayes

I think this probably is the problem here, but I am not sure how you
would get the two different amavisd instances to use a different
local.cf (or different directory in place of /etc/mail/spamassassin/)

Hopefully someone else can advise on that.
  -- Clifton

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