db error from bogofilter and bogoutil

[David Relson]

At 06:23 PM 10/29/02, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>I'm getting:
>
>tesuji-strombrg> /dcs/packages/bogofilter/bin/bogofilter -s < ~/mh_mail/spam/1
>bogofilter (db) open: /Dcs/staff/strombrg/.bogofilter/goodlist.db: Invalid 
>argument
>bogofilter: Cannot initialize database good.
>
>...on redhat 7.3, compiled on 7.1, using db 4.1.24 and bogofilter 0.7.6.
>
>Also:
>
>tesuji-strombrg> /dcs/packages/bogofilter/bin/bogoutil -v -l goodlist.db < 
>/dev/null
>bogoutil (db) open: goodlist.db: Invalid argument
>
>Does anyone have a suggestion?

Dan,

Eric Mings encountered this same problem last night and reported it to the 
mailing list.  Our database expert, Gyepi Sam, is working on it.  Here's 
what he had to say:

         You're not doing anything wrong. BerkeleyDB-4.1 appears to have 
tightened the
         semantics of specifying both the read-only and create flags to open.

Any chance that you have a second (older) version of BerkeleyDB on your 
system?  If you do, or can load one, bogofilter can be configure to use the 
older version.  'Tis not the ideal solution, but a workaround.

David