RE: Cyrus dies

2004-05-28 Thread Colin Bruce
, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: Hi, --On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2004 19:54 Uhr +0100 Colin Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found out the cause of this problem but I don't know what the solution is. The good news from your point of view is that it isn't anything to do with Cyrus - its our backup

RE: Cyrus dies

2004-05-27 Thread Colin Bruce
Dear Michael and Rob Sorry I should have said what the hardware is. We are running Cyrus on an IBM X345 with dual 3GHz processors, 8GB of memory, dual Gigabit network cards and 6 ultra 320 73GB SCSI disks which are not in a RAID configuration of any kind. I'm afraid there are no IDE drives in

RE: Cyrus dies

2004-05-27 Thread Colin Bruce
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: If even the console isn't responding to the enter key I'm hard pressed to believe that cyrus is at fault. Dear Rob et al, I have found out the cause of this problem but I don't know what the solution is. The good news from your point of view is that

cyrus hanging (possible saslauthd problem)

2004-05-26 Thread Colin Bruce
and easy fix now I would be most grateful. Best wishes Colin Bruce --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Cyrus dies

2004-05-26 Thread Colin Bruce
. This seems to happen most evenings. Does anyone know what might be the cause? Best wishes. Colin Bruce --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: mail server replication

2004-05-22 Thread Colin Bruce
than losing the contents of a server. We has used drbd in various places and it is very good. Best wishes... Colin On Fri, 21 May 2004, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Colin Bruce wrote: I haven't tried it yet but it may be that DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) might be able to do what you want. We

Re: mail server replication

2004-05-21 Thread Colin Bruce
Dear Paul and others, I haven't tried it yet but it may be that DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) might be able to do what you want. We used it with a UW Imap server and I don't see why it shouldn't work with Cyrus. It is probably possible to split the users between two cyrus servers and have each

Re: reading quotas

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Bruce
Dear Pascal, Thanks for your help. I'll do that instead. Best wishes Colin On Thu, 13 May 2004, Pascal Gienger wrote: Colin Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, This may be a stupid question but is there any reason why someone should not be able to obtain their own e-mail

reading quotas

2004-05-12 Thread Colin Bruce
earlier showed me them running Netscape 7.x and reading their quota. Now how did it do that? Have I just got the commands wrong? Any ideas would be gratefully received. Best wishes Colin Bruce --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu

Re: How to get rid of Berkeley DB

2004-04-15 Thread Colin Bruce
Dear Mark, Thanks for the info. That idea worked on my test system (which is a copy of the live system). I'll try it on the real system tonight when everyone has gone home. There are other problems now as well. I wish I'd never heard of BDB :-( Best wishes... Colin On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Mark

MOre problems with DBD

2004-04-15 Thread Colin Bruce
Dear All, Yet another problem with BDB (at least I think it is) On a test system I think I have completely removed BDB. However, I still get these errors showing up in the log files. Apr 15 17:21:27 r118-1 ctl_cyrusdb[20562]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: Invalid argument Apr 15 17:21:27 r118-1

Re: MOre problems with DBD

2004-04-15 Thread Colin Bruce
Dear Ken, Thanks for the suggestion. I'll do that tomorrow. I managed to get it to convert all the DBs to skiplist (except subs which are flat files) and it seems to be working a treat. No DB4 or PANIC errors in the log files and going well. I wish I'd never set eyes on BDB but I learn from my

MOre info on the Berkeley problem

2004-04-14 Thread Colin Bruce
When I do the second directory I get the following error messages in the log file. Apr 14 21:44:59 imap2 cvt_cyrusdb[9875]: DBERROR db4: DB_ENV-log_flush: LSN of 2/2099190 past current end-of-log of 1/1426062 Apr 14 21:44:59 imap2 cvt_cyrusdb[9875]: DBERROR db4: Database environment corrupt;

How to get rid of Berkeley DB

2004-04-14 Thread Colin Bruce
Dear All, I am running cyrus 2.2.3 on a linux system but at the end of my tether with it. It is now a live environment with around 20,000 users. At the moment it is down. I have discovered that Berkeley DB is utter rubbish and totally unusable. However, there appears to be no way to get rid of

Desperate

2004-04-08 Thread Colin Bruce
Dear All, We have been running cyrus for roughly 8 hours in a production environment and it has failed. It will not start at all. It just sits their doing nothing. The following errors are in the log file although these are follow by hundreds of lines similar to this. It is the latest stable

Re: Desperate

2004-04-08 Thread Colin Bruce
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Colin Bruce wrote: Apr 6 13:02:37 imap2 ctl_cyrusdb[2264]: archiving log file: /usr/local/packages/cyrus/var/db/log.01 Apr 6 13:02:37 imap2 ctl_cyrusdb[2264]: archiving database file: /usr/local/packages/cyrus/var

Re: Cyrus will not run properly

2004-04-08 Thread Colin Bruce
Dear Lyn, We had a similar problem this afternoon and some people helped out with sugestions. What we did was 1. stop the master server 2. delete files in the /var/imap/db directory 3. restart the master I suspect there might be a need to run utilities such as db_recover

Re: Problem correcting my silly mistake

2004-04-06 Thread Colin Bruce
was operating system error as I recall. I suspect it was me messing around that broke something pretty bad. Anyway, its one way to find out how things work :-) Thanks for the info anyway. Best wishes Colin Bruce --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu

Problem correcting my silly mistake

2004-04-04 Thread Colin Bruce
is how should I deal with such errors in a live system? Best wishes. Colin Bruce --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html