Re: sa-learn --backup

On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 01:03 +0100, RW wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:31:16 -0500
> Chris wrote:
>
> > I've been running the above command as a cronjob nightly for years now
> > suddenly in the past few days I've been getting this as the output of
> > the cronjob:
> >
> > bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/chris/.spamassassin/bayes_*
> > R/W: lock failed: Interrupted system call
> > ERROR: Bayes backup returned an error, please re-run with -D for more
> > information
> >
> > The command line I'm using is:
> >
> > cd /home/chris/.spamassassin
> > /usr/local/bin/sa-learn --backup > /home/chris/SABackup/backup.txt
> >
> > Running with -D shows nothing and running from the command line works
> > fine. What could be causing the error output?
> >
>
> Have you tried changing the crontab entry to:
>
> sa-learn -D --backup > /home/chris/SABackup/backup.txt 2>/home/chris/SABackup/debug
>
>
Thanks, the cronjob ran ok last night, I'll keep an eye on it and check
the debug output next time it fails.

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