bogoutil runs forever dumping database?

[David Relson]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:24:37 -0400
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:17:12PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Thor Lancelot Simon <tls at rek.tjls.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Okay, so, db_verify says this:
> > >
> > > 	> db_verify *.db
> > > 	db_verify: Last item on page 2616 sorted greater than parent
> > > 	entry db_verify: DB->verify: wordlist.db: DB_VERIFY_BAD:
> > > 	Database verification failed
> > >
> > > How can I recover from this condition?  My DB foo is pretty rusty.
> > 
> > See http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.php#rescue for quick
> > recovery instructions. Note there is no guarantee that this
> > condition is recoverable.
> 
> Well, that doesn't work; db_dump -r just runs forever, just like
> bogoutil -d does.
> 
> I can use plain db_dump; that works, but gives me only a small part of
> the data before hanging, so that I have to ^C it.   What I really
> need, I assume, is a way to just skip over the bad pages in the
> database; but I cannot find a simple way to do that.
> 
> Thor

Thor,

Skipping would be nice, but BerkeleyDB doesn't have such a utility
(AFAIK).  The easiest thing is to use whatever spam and ham you have and
build a new database.  After that, a safety precaution would be to
periodically run "bogoutil -d" to save a copy of the database.

HTH,

David