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If you encounter the following problem during install/update in Linux (In my case it is SuSE Linux 10.0), it is probably that you run BOTH "install new update" and "Update" at the same time. db_recover: DB_ENV->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery To resolve this problem, in command prompt, issue the following command: rpm --rebuilddb to rebuild the RPM db as it is already corrupted. Hope it helps.

My bad day today. Here is my solution (hope) on fixing the problem of Spamassassin about a question that spamassassin cannot identify a spam: At first, I try to identify the problem but no luck. The final decision I made was: uninstall the package. So, firstly I type: rpm –e spamassassin # success then I type: yum install spamassassin # success The above install script ONLY install the Fedora 4 version, at writing time is 3.0.6-1. However, in the official website the latest stable version is 3.1.3. Then I uninstall that old version. Reinstall the new version in tar.gz format. Since I am not very familiar with using tar.gz to install (Well, actually I did the following: perl –MCPAN –e cpan> cpan Mail::SpamAssassin make make install however no luck again), I just gave up using that method and using another rpm method: rpmbuild. Please alert that: rpmb...

- To test if spamassassin worked, use: spamc -R /sample-spam.txt It will return the report which identified if the message passed in is a spam or not. - To use spamc in procmail for large size email: I have read several online document that to combine spamassassin and procmail, administrator should add the following line in /etc/procmailrc DROPPRIVS=yes :0fw | /usr/bin/spamc The above 2 lines pipe the message to spamc. To enable large email support, add the following: | /usr/bin/spamc -s 8000000 which, 8000000 is the size in KB of email. In other words, user can add suitable spamc switch of spamc which suit your needs. However, I still cannot find any solution on how to solve the 0/0 problem when, at first, when I run the spamc test, I just got 0/0. Then after run several "spamc" command, it works again... Strange...