On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Marc-Andre Gaudreau wrote: > We have a weird problem on our Murder setup (cyrus 2.1.14 on redhat > 7.3). When I restart syslog on one of the backend servers, the > frontends start to have problems and I get a bunch of error messages (on > the frontends). Users then see their folders as if they were empty (for > about half the connections). When I restart cyrus on the backend, > everything comes back to normal. I also have to restart cyrus on the > frontends because restarting cyrus on the backends causes the load to go > way up on the frontends (a few proxyd processes use a lot of cpu). > > The error message I get on the frontends is : > "couldn't authenticate to backend server: generic failure" > > Nothing weird shows up in the logs on the backend. Any ideas on what is > going on? We use DIGEST-MD5 to authenticate on the backends for the > proxy user.
When you restart syslog on the backends, can you still authenticate directly to the backends using, say, imtest? It looks like something far worse happens on the backends [than restarting syslog] causing them to no longer accept connections. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
