Re: Serious problem with scores file for todays rule update?

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

Michael Alan Dorman writes:
>Hey, all,
>
>I have a bunch of servers that picked up a rule update, 729912 this
>morning about 10am EST, at which point all hell broke loose---scores for
>everything but bayes dropped to almost nothing.
>
>Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

hmm.  What do you have in /var/lib/spamassassin for the scores files?
they should look like this:


: 183...; ls -l /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf  /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/72_scores.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48928 Dec 29 23:20 /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1392 Dec 29 23:20 /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/72_scores.cf


--j.

Re: Serious problem with scores file for todays rule update?

[Michael Alan Dorman <md...@ironicdesign.com>]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:55:52 +0000
"Justin Mason" <jm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does the sa-compile step complete with an exit code of 0?  If there
> are problems with re2c (which has happened in the past) it should exit
> with !=0.

There were no errors visible in the output, but the script I was using
to do the update is, of course, one of the few that I've written
without using /bin/sh -e, so even if sa-compile had failed, it would
have continued.

I suspect we can mark this down to re2c not liking something yesterday
+ I/O error.

Thanks, Justin,

Mike.

Re: Serious problem with scores file for todays rule update?

[Justin Mason <jm...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 23:41, Michael Alan Dorman
<md...@ironicdesign.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:21:48 +0000
> jm@jmason.org (Justin Mason) wrote:
>
>> hmm.  What do you have in /var/lib/spamassassin for the scores files?
>> they should look like this:
>>
>> : 183...; ls
>> -l /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf  /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/72_scores.cf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48928 Dec 29
>> 23:20 /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1392 Dec 29
>> 23:20 /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/72_scores.cf
>
> Hey, Justin, thanks for the quick response.
>
> My 50_scores.cf is 48923, so it differs, but close enough.
>
> In fact, it didn't occur to me immediately, but further investigation
> (for lack of a better word for the last rather tense 45 minutes :) seems
> to be pointing the finger at sa-compile, rather than the scores.
>
> I got fixated on 72_scores.cf and totally forgot about 50_scores, which
> is why I was thinking scores at first.
>
> I'll be doing more testing and such, later, but just zapping the
> compiled files and restarting the processes seems to have taken care of
> it.
>
> If there's anything in particular you'd like me to do to try and help
> track the interaction down, please let me know.  I'm using re2c 0.13.5
> on debian amd64 boxes, and am happy to throw some time and resources at
> figuring out what's going on.

Does the sa-compile step complete with an exit code of 0?  If there
are problems with re2c (which has happened in the past) it should exit
with !=0.

--j.

Re: Serious problem with scores file for todays rule update?

[Michael Alan Dorman <md...@ironicdesign.com>]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:21:48 +0000
jm@jmason.org (Justin Mason) wrote:

> hmm.  What do you have in /var/lib/spamassassin for the scores files?
> they should look like this:
> 
> : 183...; ls
> -l /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf  /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/72_scores.cf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48928 Dec 29
> 23:20 /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1392 Dec 29
> 23:20 /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002006/updates_spamassassin_org/72_scores.cf

Hey, Justin, thanks for the quick response.

My 50_scores.cf is 48923, so it differs, but close enough.

In fact, it didn't occur to me immediately, but further investigation
(for lack of a better word for the last rather tense 45 minutes :) seems
to be pointing the finger at sa-compile, rather than the scores.

I got fixated on 72_scores.cf and totally forgot about 50_scores, which
is why I was thinking scores at first.

I'll be doing more testing and such, later, but just zapping the
compiled files and restarting the processes seems to have taken care of
it.

If there's anything in particular you'd like me to do to try and help
track the interaction down, please let me know.  I'm using re2c 0.13.5
on debian amd64 boxes, and am happy to throw some time and resources at
figuring out what's going on.

Mike.