Need help please

[Charles F. Wyble (imap)]

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     staff     1586312 Dec 15 14:22 
/usr/local/bin/bogofilter

moses:/home/charlie_carol# ls -al /etc/bogofilter
total 220
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root           24 Dec 15 10:14 .
drwxr-xr-x   50 root     root         4096 Dec 15 15:18 ..
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       217088 Dec 15 10:33 wordlist.db


I changed to using /usr/local/bin/bogofilter and am getting a different 
error occasionally:
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/local/bin/bogofilter"

Yes, I know it is from procmail, but you guys here seem to know a lot 
about that also.



David Relson wrote:

>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
>
>
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