Hello,
I made a cron/backup of the mailboxes (/var/imap and /var/spool/imap) this
evening. Everything worked apparently fine.
Here is /var/log/messages with comment
Apr 24 07:00:00 lx93 /USR/SBIN/CRON[7118]: (root) CMD (/home/cyrus/sauve.txt)
Apr 24 07:00:00 lx93 master[1630]: exiting on SIGTERM
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 master: unable to change limit of file descriptors
available
==> I have already seen this line without knowing exactly what it means
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 master[7215]: process started
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 master[7216]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 ctl_mboxlist[7216]: running mboxlist recovery
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 ctl_mboxlist[7216]: done running mboxlist recovery
==> I suppose it is the instruction ctl_mboxlist -r but why a "recovery". Is
it routine?
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 master[7221]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_deliver
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 master[7215]: ready for work
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 master[7222]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 ctl_mboxlist[7222]: checkpointing mboxlist
==> why again ctl_mboxlist -c? Routine?
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 master[7215]: process 7222 exited, status 0
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 master[7223]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_deliver
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 ctl_deliver[7223]: duplicate_prune: pruning back 3 days
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 ctl_deliver[7223]: duplicate_prune:
/var/imap/deliverdb/deliver-a.db: purged 174 out of 1048 entries
==> I have some problem to understand the word "pruning". What does
ctl_deliver do?
ctl_mboxlist -E days
Prune the database of entries older than days.
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 ctl_deliver[7223]: duplicate_prune:
/var/imap/deliverdb/deliver-b.db: purged 0 out of 1 entries
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 ctl_deliver[7223]: duplicate_prune:
/var/imap/deliverdb/deliver-c.db: purged 0 out of 0 entries
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 ctl_deliver[7223]: duplicate_prune:
/var/imap/deliverdb/deliver-d.db: purged 0 out of 0 entries
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 ctl_deliver[7223]: duplicate_prune:
/var/imap/deliverdb/deliver-e.db: purged 0 out of 0 entries
Apr 24 07:00:03 lx93 ctl_deliver[7223]: duplicate_prune:
/var/imap/deliverdb/deliver-f.db: purged 0 out of 0 entries
etc ... etc ...
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Alain Barthélemy
SBB-ISP
