We've recently experienced problems with some of the cyrus index files in user account getting suffixed with .NEW and not going away. Their
presence indicates a problem with the account. We are currently guessing
that the files are being left as a result of the server being shutdown
and they don't get cleaned up properly.
Wha we currently do to stop the server is simply kill the master process. That's what I found in the docs. Might there be some things to do before that ie, create a shutdown message and let things calm down before killing master? Send a particular signal?
Or, are we seeing a completely different problem with the .NEW files?
We are using version 2.1.11 on Solaris 8 with a UFS filesystem on a SAN.
Regards, Earl Shannon
