Need help please

[David Relson]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:28:47 -0800
"Charles F. Wyble (imap)" <cwyble at thewybles.com> wrote:

> One more thing,  If I use absolute path names -ie- 
> /usr/local/bin/bogofilter then I get the same errors.
> 
> I did re-build and re-install but it didn't help.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
> Charles F. Wyble (imap) wrote:
> 
> > HELP.
> >
> > Our system crashed last night and I'm having problems getting
> > procmail / bogofilter to work again..
> >
> > I was running 14.8 and decided just to trash my old word list and
> > run 15.10
> >
> > The compile went fine and installed in usr/local/bin.  Procmail is 
> > working until it gets to the bogo filter line:
> >
> >     # filter mail through bogofilter, tagging it as spam and
> >     # updating the word lists
> >
> >     :0fw
> >     | bogofilter -e -p -d /etc/bogofilter
> >
> >     :0e
> >     { EXITCODE=75 HOST }
> >
> >     :0:
> >     * ^X-Bogosity: Yes.*
> >     .Charlie.autoSpam/
> >
> > then procmail (with logging turned on) gives me this:
> >     procmail: Program failure (-8) of "bogofilter"
> >     procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
> >     From charles.wyble at newroads.com  Mon Dec 15 14:01:52 2003
> >       Folder: 
> > .Stuff/new/1071525712.4208_0.moses                               
> > 759
> >
> > What does the "Program failure (-8) of "bogofilter" mean?  I can't 
> > find any reference to this in either the procmail or bogofilter
> > docs.
> >
> > Any help is greatly needed here.
> >
> > Charlie

Charlie,

An error code of 8 is not one that bogofilter generates per se. 
Bogofilter's exit codes are 0, 1, 2, and 3.

Possibly relevant is that /usr/include/asm/errno.h has 

  #define  ENOEXEC   8   /* Exec format error */

Unexpected errors are often due to permissions.  What are the
permissions for /etc/bogofilter and /etc/bogofilter/wordlist.db?

FWIW, I use /var/lib/bogofilter and here are the permissions:


$$ ls -ld /var/lib/bogofilter /var/lib/bogofilter/wordlist.db
/var/spool/mail/spam-bogofilter"
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Nov 20 16:38
/var/lib/bogofilter/
-rw-r--r--    1 relson   relson   67850240 Dec 15 17:58
/var/lib/bogofilter/wordlist.db

Please let us know when you figure out what the problem is.

Thanks.

David