On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:55:01PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:10:02PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 08:13 -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
> > > I notice that there are two of these running today:
> > >     $ ps -fp "$(pgrep cyr_expire)"
> > >          UID   PID  PPID   C    STIME TTY         TIME CMD
> > >        cyrus  2510   986   3 04:00:01 ?         219:28 cyr_expire -E 3
> > >        cyrus 18280   986   3   Apr 27 ?        1580:15 cyr_expire -E 3
> > > There are also lots of errors like this.  They refer to the same
> > > message over and over again:
> > >     Apr 28 08:07:56 castor cyr_expire[18280]: [ID 264569 local6.error] 
> > > DBERROR: mydelete: error deleting 
> > > <200904201356.n3kdujes008...@taygeta.cc.umanitoba.ca>: DB_NOTFOUND: No 
> > > matching key/data pair found

Bloody BDB.  I wish I understood it better.  Lots of people use it, so
it seems it must be something odd Cyrus does that causes it to be
relatively unreliable...

> > > Should I kill one of the cyr_expire processes?  Is there a safe way
> > > to do this?  
> > 
> > I'd kill -15 both of them.  Then watch to see if they get stuck again.
> 
> I did that last time around, with bad results.  POP3 stopped working.
> I had to restart master to fix that.
 
Odd - it shouldn't.  I have killed cyr_expire without problems before.

Then again, we only run it once per week, so it never wraps!

> > > Is the duplicate delivery database broken?  Is there a
> > > way to fix it?
> > 
> > There is no reason to fix it; I'd just delete it.  You maybe will be a
> > couple duplicates but no big deal.
> 
> I thought that some information need by the sieve vacation responder
> was stored in that database.  I don't want to break that feature for
> thousands of people.

It may send a vacation response again.  All it stores is the "vacation
already sent" data.

I would restart the master while deleting it though.

Bron ( yes, that does kick off all your users... )
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