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Newer page: version 14 Last edited on Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:32:49 pm by DanielLawson Revert
Older page: version 12 Last edited on Monday, January 17, 2005 3:04:32 pm by CraigBox Revert
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+!!Inappropriate ioctl for device in your debug logs under Sarge/Hoary  
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+<verbatim>  
+debug: using "/root/.spamassassin" for user state dir  
+debug: lock: 29656 created /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.firewall.itpartners.co.nz.29656  
+debug: lock: 29656 trying to get lock on /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist with 0 retries  
+debug: lock: 29656 link to /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: link ok  
+debug: Tie-ing to DB file R/W in /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist  
+debug: unlock: 29656 unlink /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock  
+debug: open of AWL file failed: Cannot open auto_whitelist_path /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist: Inappropriate ioctl for device  
+</verbatim>  
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+You're using old format database files.  
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+The perl version change effected a change of the BDB version being used. The bayes_seen and bayes_toks fixes are BDB files and  
+can be fixed by doing an db4.x_upgrade on them. sarge/hoary use Berkely DB 4.2, and you can install the db4.2-util package. with HTML  
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+CategoryAntiSpam