[ale] spamassassin is suddenly all stupid like

[Tim Watts]

Thanks Jim. See below.

On Friday 31 October 2008 12:51 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:10, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My spamassassin has suddenly been making lots of wrong decisions lately:
> > the good stuff get marked as spam and real spam is getting a pass. I
> > haven't touched the configuration. Not sure if the baysean thing is
> > activated. How can I tell if it is and how can I get him smart again?
>
> What distro?
>
SuSE 10.2

> What version of SA?
>
3.1.6-15

> Do you have the latest pkg for your distro?
>
Just ran the YaST update for the SA packages so I guess I do now.

> Check disk space on /var (or where /var/lib/spamassassin resides)
>
timtw at dellberry:~$ df -h /var
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6              11G  5.8G  4.3G  58% /

> As root, run "sa-update -D" and look for warnings/errors, if the rules are
> updated then run "/etc/init.d/spamassassin reload".
>
timtw at dellberry:~$ sudo sa-update -D
Can't locate Archive/Tar.pm in @INC (@INC 
contains: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl) 
at /usr/bin/sa-update line 94.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/sa-update line 94.

So that's not good.
Also...

timtw at dellberry:~$ ps -ef|grep spam
timtw    18041 14888  0 14:04 pts/1    00:00:00 grep spam

Not sure if this was clear / is relevant, but I'm using SA as a KMail filter 
not on a mail server.


> -Jim P.
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